Posted on 10/01/2002 3:13:22 AM PDT by Greybird
Bluster and posture, fire a few missles timed to remove headlines from the papers. This lead OBL and radical Muslims to believe America was weak and they could gain admiration and power with their misguided followers by poking the US in the eye.
And why not? America wouldn't do anything about it. America was past it's prime, old fat, gluttonous with a sign on it's back saying "kick me".
This may be your vision of how America should be, but many more have pulled their heads out of the sand since 9/11/01.
Saddam has and continues to commit horrors against his people, he continues to starve them for a source of media propaganda while he builds his palaces filled with who know what evil.
Oh, I understand now. Roosevelt lied. We weren't attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. He made it all up.
I understand Buzz Aldrin never walked on the moon either.
In his other indictments, he is largely correct. However, no reasonable doubt remains about the Iraqi nuclear and bioweapons programs, nor about the significant chance that Iraq would use them in a war of aggression against a neighboring state, nor about the unacceptable risk that terrorist groups would get access to weapons of mass destruction by way of Saddam Hussein.
The entire warlike enterprise is about Black Tuesday: September 11, 2001, and all that has flowed from it.
Black Tuesday was not the sinking of the Maine; this is not the Spanish-American War.
Black Tuesday was not the Zimmerman Telegram; this is not World War I.
Black Tuesday was not the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; this is not Vietnam.
Black Tuesday was a belated awakening to the identity and ferocity of those who hate America and her ideals most fervently.
This case really is different. The pity of it is that, to those of us with a grasp of history and a knowledge of the political bases of previous wars, it should be so difficult to set aside those earlier, shameful episodes, so that we can proceed without crippling doubts. Of course, there are numerous voices raised at this time in the attempt to intensify those doubts. I trust that, in Professor Higgs's case, it's a matter of sincere misunderstanding rather than an attempt to deflect war through obfuscation and deceit.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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September 11, 2001.
I'm convinced they get this stuff via focus groups & push polls- FWIW!
Amen!
9-11-2001...NEVER FORGET!
America did not start this war, but she is damn sure gonna finish it.
Have you managed to convince yourself that Iraq had anything to do with September 11?
The .30 caliber carbine is a pipsqueak, minor caliber round.
Appropriate.
Regards
J.R.
The immediate results of FDR's success in getting us into that war were 20,000 casualties in the Philipines and loss to U-boat action of about 400 ships before June 1942.
Most interesting of all was the reason for FDR's eagerness to fight. FDR was an anglophobe. Who else was allied with us in WWII? The Soviet Union! And FDR's enthusiasm for the fight seems to date from June 22, 1941; there seems to be no example of a major US policy which did anything to disadvantage of the Soviet Union.
FDR recognized the USSR the year he took office . . .
True. But only as a result of the fact that "Pax Americana" is now the neo-con buzz phrase.
Regards
J.R.
Granting your assumption, there are effective and practical ways to deal with those programs. One easy one is use carrots instead of sticks: drop economic sanctions in exchange for complete inspections. Think about all the possible states with similar programs, are we going to invade them all? How many resources would that divert from the war on terror?
Iraq would use them in a war of aggression against a neighboring state
Boxing Saddam in has dealt with that threat
nor about the unacceptable risk that terrorist groups would get access to weapons of mass destruction by way of Saddam Hussein.
There's a pandora's box of possibilities after we invade. Here's just one: Iran takes advantage of the situation by increasing its support of terrorists while blackmailing our occupation forces in Iraq which are now in range of their missiles.
The fact of the matter is once Iraq has been invaded, no more countries will be invaded no matter how much they support terrorists, no matter how many of their own people they kill because we will be bogged down in the mother of all nation building and quickly lose all political support for new adventures. Terrorists will then quickly gain new footholds in new countries.
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