Howdy Buckaroo
You do me injustice, sir, by assigning unclean motives to my view on saddam hussein in particular and the war on terror in general. You malign me in ingnorance with a gratuitous assertion that I seek vengance.
And you are wrong to do so, and wrong in substance.
Vengance is the province of the Lord.
The government of the United States of America is charged first and foremost with protecting the American People.
Our govenrnment was recently run by an individual devoid of character, deeply imbued with the intellectually and morally vapid dysfunction of liberal, collectivist tripe that has infected our government bureaucracies, institutions of higher learning, and entertainment communities ever since the 1930's.
President clinton and albert gore reinvented our government to reflect their poisonous leftist religion, they destroyed the ability of numerous agencies to protect the American People, most notably the INS and CIA. They displayed craven cowardice to al qaida in Somalia, and opened the door wide to terror.
The result was thousands of American citizens burned and crushed to death in the most heinous acts of mass murder on American soil in history.
The results of liberalism are inarguable, lost in a morass of relativistic dysfunction, it is inoperable as a philosphical approach to just governance.
That President Bush seeks to mitigate the horrific human suffering caused by liberalism's common cause with tyrranical mass murderers is simply the appropriate remedy and a faithful execution of the absolute mandate that our government protect its citizens from further acts of horror.
Vengance has nothing to do with it.
So why is America the world cop? Why don't we see the EU or Russia or China or ANYONE in the Middle-East? Because our government is saving you? I want to explore your opin upon this subject because, frankly, you have taken world opinion as the gospel of life.
Well said, Mike!
Some people think that we can just withdraw to our borders and that will solve all of our problems. That leaves the strategic initiative with our enemies. It would only be a matter of time before we lose a city to an atomic attack.
Thankfully, the American people appear to understand that, even if some folks on this board do not.
My take on the conference: Bush and Blair have a disagreement on the methods to be used against Saddam. Bush was out front on the need to "remove" Saddam from power. "All options are on the table". Blair, having been briefed by CIA, understands that something must be done as soon as possible, but he has a problem with Labour's backbench (the Party is filled to the gills with ex-CND types who hated Reagan and hate Bush).
Arafat is small potatoes. Bush has made it clear to Tony that nothing Arafat does will deter him from marching on Baghdad.
The reason for the conflict? Bush gave the game away when he spoke of terrorists having the ability to tap the vast powers and resources of states for WMD. That's code for saying: "Saddam, we know you've been fooling around with Al-Qaeda. That was a stupid thing to do. Now you have to be removed."
Be Seeing You,
Chris