BobbyMike
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Warning.... I'm an equal opportunity offender, If I don't offend your sensibilities below, I apologize...
Some thoughts:
The thing with all of this is that not whether we "whack the mole" or not, it's what happens afterwards.
We certainly have the tech and might to reduce the idiot to a pile of ash in a puddle of molten glass- but what happens afterwards? How many kids, moms and grandparents would die because we thought invasion was a good idea? ... and not just in Iraq.
The other countries don't want any shindigs happening over there and rightly so. they don't want the "overflow". Where is the wind going to take all the crap?
Remember what happened after Kuwait? ...and that was only a 'little' campaign.
As a formerly active Marine I'm quite aware of what our Armed Forces could do if we unleashed them on Iraq, but really what would the whole exercise accomplish, even if we kill Saddam? We would feel compelled to stick around and fix Iraq afterwards - and that would never happen. The instability of that region is caused by cultural forces that we can not hope to channel.
If we want to kick his a**, kick him in his wallet. His people are starving - we don't need to kill them too.
Yet if we assaninate him, we'll just create a martyr.
Why don't we finish up in Afganistan first? We helped to "free" that country. How about we make sure they all enjoy some basic freedoms, like the freedom not to starve?
This all isn't about Iraq anyway, it's about never having found Bin Laden. if we really thought Saddam was such a threat, we wouldn't have stopped pressing him when he was on the ropes before.
I notice there is always a nice vocal contingent that wants war, but they're rarely ever at the front line.
(There's also the ostriches too, that just hope the problem will just go away)
So far the level of thinking that I've heard discussed all over isn't any different.
That old adage applies here too- The same level of thinking that caused the problem, will not solve it.
But since both the Reps and the Dems can share equal blame for ignoring events when it's not profitable for them to handle them, and then to incessantly argue about what's right when the public becomes aroused about an issue- what are we to do?
And worse- we have the EU(our allies?) come along and say, even though they agree that Saddam is reprehensible, the US is led by an unstable trigger happy idjit that they can't stand behind - Yet they stood by and let thousands die in Serbia and Croatia because they didn't want to get involved with someone elses fight. No "civilized" nation is innocent. The past one hundred years have shown that.
Why don't we just destroy their military electronically? Bombard them with EMPs and jam their transmissions- and then dump about 100,000 tons of rice and popcorn on their cities along with flyers that said "We love you! Please come to our house for dinner!" and "You may think we're nutty, but we're kinda sweet on you!"
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09-02-2002 08:26 AM
. Nukes are not the be-all-end-all that everyone thinks they are. If my memory serves me correctly, there was a reported rise in Cancer in N. America that was attributed to the radioactive dust cloud that floated over the pacific and settled in over the West Coast...not to mention the THOUSANDS of Japanese that are STILL dying from the radiation, the only way those deaths could be justified is if the Japanese were still evil, but guess what, THEY'RE NOT! (And the make pretty good sushi too...no Japan, no sushi!)
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