Revolving Door Monsters
Nicholas D. Kristof
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/opinion/11KRIS.html?tntemail1
from the article:
"We need to be wary that we are not just pursuing the latest fashion in
monsters. Iran was the menace of the 1980's, so we snuggled up with
Iraq. The Soviet threat led us to cuddle with Islamic fundamentalists
like those now trying to blow us up.
In 1994 the vogue threat changed, and hawks pressed hard for a military
confrontation with North Korea. We came within an inch of going to war
with North Korea, in a conflict that a Pentagon study found would have
killed a million people, including up to 100,000 Americans."
Doug
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