[TJFLSTRAT]

Right, we are better to wait till Saddam builds his bomb, and sets it sailing on a suicide freighter for N.Y. harbor.
The article is sheer nonsense.

[MJY1288]

Pokey beat you to the punch :-) Already posted HERE

[Mr. Mojo]

Brent Scowcroft... urged the President to concentrate on trying to broker peace between the Israelis and Palestinians

Yeah right, Brent. Brokering "peace" between Israel and the Palestinians is the answer to all the world's problems, so it seems. Problems with Saddam and his WMD program? Time to bring Israel and the Palis to the peace table. Problems with the crazy Wahabbis potentially overthrowing the House of Saud? It's the fault of the Israelis. Al Qaeda has plans to destroy us? It's because the Palis don't have a homeland. Kuwait won't let us use their country as a platform to launch an Iraqi invasion? Well, you know the answer.....

Israel - specifically, Jews - have been history's scapegoat for eons now, and it looks like nothing will be changing anytime soon.

[Rudder]

If we do not follow Snowcroft's advice some Arabs will not like us anymore and will cease being our allies and may even try to deceive us.

Hey, wait! This has already happened...they hate us, they try to deceive us and they're not really our allies.

What have we got to lose?

[StockAyatollah]

“You don’t have licence to attack someone else’s country just because you don’t like the leadership,”

Well said, Brent! Sovereignty matters. We don't want other nations assassinating our leaders, do we?

[TheDon]

“You don’t have licence to attack someone else’s country just because you don’t like the leadership,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World This Weekend. “We are supposed to be taking a lead on the moral issues of the world.”

This guy is out of touch with reality if he thinks this is the reason we are going to overthrow the Iraqi gov't. And a few others in the Middle East as well.

[Dark Wing]

A "Brent Scowcroft was wrong then and is wrong now" ping!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a cauldron and destroy the War on Terror.”

This is an almost nonsensical statement and Scowcroft either must be developing early Alzheimer's or should hang his head in abject shame.

If the U.S. War on Terror is going to be destroyed, it will be from from the lack of fortitude to take concrete action to destroy America's enemies.

The Middle East IS a cauldron -- and stirring up that cauldron will have quite the opposite effect that the now shallow-thinking Scowcroft so cavalierly tosses out (has he been abducted by aliens, say the French?).

Enemies in the open are far preferable to hidden ones. And clearing the rhetorical garbage that has built up from Islamic sympathizers world-wide will allow everyone to see clearly the danger that retreat and surrender in the face of this enemy represents.

If we fail to deal with Iraq, then we openly demonstrate that we cannot deal with anyone, or at least anyone that might fight back. We openly show that we no longer have the fortitude to take the military option. And this will help us to deal with terrorists how?

I think Scowcroft has taken up binge drinking in his retirement (thank GOD he's retired).