----- Original Message -----
From: "John Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a
civilization?
> >
> >* - In March of 1990, the Northcoast Model United Nations Conference at
> >Kent State - Ashtabula Campus in Ohio ran a mock UN Security Council
Crisis
> >where Iraq invaded Kuwait. This simulation is one of the only known
> >predictions of an invasion.
>
> One can make a case that the government did know (or should have
suspected)
> that the invasion was imminent. See Atkinson's Crusade or Trainor's The
> General's War.
>
I'm sure the case can be made, but one problem I have with this is the
advantages of Monday morning quarterbacking vs. Sunday afternoon
quarterbacking. Another example of this is when there are signs that a
youth is troubled before he shoots someone. The difficulty is that, once
you know something happened, you can point out the warning signs. Before it
happens, how do you seperate this youth from the ones who exhibit the same
signs?
Dan M.
