1st July 2003, 8:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 1st July 2003, 8:39 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Nice try. But... no. You just can't transfer it like that. It doesn't work.
We have no threats that come anywhere close to that kind of threat. Not even close. Iraq wasn't a threat, as we all know now. Who is a "threat" now? Iran? Not really... North Korea? Only to their own starving people...
We live in the Information Age... where we can see things happening all over the world as they happen. And all that info points to the fact that there are no threats to our world postion. Sure, there are threats out there... Al Quaida, etc... but they won't destroy us, not even close... and as for nations, there are none that could even remotely threaten us.
All the Iraq thing proved is that Bush's preemtive doctrine was a total failure, as the nation he destroyed didn't have any of the things he based the case for war on.
They didn't have them because the sanctions and inspections worked as well as anyone could possibly expect them to. They stopped the weapons program. They made the Iraqis hide or destroy all the evidence of that program. And they kept the program from going anywhere for over a decade. I'd call that a success.
But Bush listened to morons like Rumsfeldt and Wolfowicz, so its no surprise that he went in there and beat up Sadaam...
And I sure love the aftermath of that action. :)
We have no threats that come anywhere close to that kind of threat. Not even close. Iraq wasn't a threat, as we all know now. Who is a "threat" now? Iran? Not really... North Korea? Only to their own starving people...
We live in the Information Age... where we can see things happening all over the world as they happen. And all that info points to the fact that there are no threats to our world postion. Sure, there are threats out there... Al Quaida, etc... but they won't destroy us, not even close... and as for nations, there are none that could even remotely threaten us.
All the Iraq thing proved is that Bush's preemtive doctrine was a total failure, as the nation he destroyed didn't have any of the things he based the case for war on.
They didn't have them because the sanctions and inspections worked as well as anyone could possibly expect them to. They stopped the weapons program. They made the Iraqis hide or destroy all the evidence of that program. And they kept the program from going anywhere for over a decade. I'd call that a success.
But Bush listened to morons like Rumsfeldt and Wolfowicz, so its no surprise that he went in there and beat up Sadaam...
And I sure love the aftermath of that action. :)