J. van Baardwijk wrote: > At 07:40 23-2-02 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: > >> And why does Bush's "Axis of Evil" not include other nations that meet >> the same criteria as those used to include NK (such as China) and Iran >> (such as Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia)? > > > Educated guess: because the US currently has valuable relations with > those countries, and including those countries in the "Axis of Evil" > would seriously damage those relations? > > The PRC is slowly opening up to the West; calling them "evil" now might > be enough reason for Beijing to slam the door shut again. And if you are > planning an invasion of Iraq, making an enemy out of Saudi Arabia is not > a particularly bright idea either. >
In other words you can be as "evil" as you want as long as you either have billions of people or billions in oil reserves. -- Doug email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zo.com/~brighto "Now people stand themselves next to the righteous And they believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do" Jackson Browne, It Is One
