[Plainsman]

Cited by the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto in the 21 February 03 edition of his "Best of the Web Today" e-mail report (subscription required). Substitute "Iraq" and "Saddam" just about anywhere in Sonntag's impassioned defense of Clinton's war, and her arguments remain as strong, if not stronger, for today's consideration of the case against Iraq.

[NYpeanut]

Good post. Now come on over here and help us trash the ugly hypocrite.

[dennisw]

So this horrible, repulsive woman found a war she liked 3 years ago. Leftist rats will never approve a 3rd world nation being attacked by the USA nor a Muslim nation. Ergo the UN will never approve us attacking Iraq. Blix knows the spotlight is on him, he will never give us raison d'etre to attack Iraq.

Lefties would oppose the UK taking out Mugabe because he's 3rd world.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

It is sad that the left supported Clinton in the Balkans...but wont support Bush in Iraq

Is it the left-wings's hatred of Bush.....yes, in part

Is it the left-wing's Islamocentrism/Islamofascism....yes, in part

Is it the left-wing's co-opt (triangulation..as Dick Morris would say) of David Duke's anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) plank...yes, in part

It is a lot of things. But, the one thing that is clear...

The intervention in Iraq will be for national security and national interests' reasons. US intervention in the Balkans, although it could be considered noble, did not have anything to do with national security or national interests.

In fact...it may have hurt national security. After the Muslim people's of the Balkans were liberated...Islamic terrorist groups became more active in the region...including Al-Qaeda

[Mr. Bird]

No forceful response to the violence of a state against peoples who are nominally its own citizens? (Which is what most "wars" are today. Not wars between states.) The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. Can we really say there is no response to this? Is it acceptable that such slaughters be dismissed as civil wars, also known as "age-old ethnic hatreds." (After all, anti-Semitism was an old tradition in Europe; indeed, a good deal older than ancient Balkan hatreds. Would this have justified letting Hitler kill all the Jews on German territory?) Is it true that war never solved anything? (Ask a black American if he or she thinks our Civil War didn't solve anything.)

Someone needs to smack Sontag upside the head with this paragraph.

[Free the USA]

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