At 12:06 AM 12/28/2002 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>This is why we should keep working diplomatically for an internal change
>without letting our guard down. We would have had all the reasonable
>people in the world behind us if we pressed for change in a peaceful
>manner.
Doug, the recent UNSC reoslution on Iraq sponsored by the United States was
passed unanimously by the UNSC, including France, Russia, and Syria.
This unanimous support stands in stark contrast to the UNSC of the late
1990's, when the US *was* advocating the above policies, and instead the
UNSC was highly fractured and there was little unified support for anything
regarding Iraq.
Quite simply, history has proven the above statement to be false.
>If you are saying that we should deal with NK diplomatically I couldn't
>agree more. But think about it. If the more difficult problem can be
>dealt with in a peaceful manner, why can't we deal with the less
>difficult problem in the same manner?
The Clinton Administration delt with N. Korea diplomatically for eight
years. The end result is that N. Korea kept working on its nuclear
program right under our noses, and appears to have assembled at least two
nuclear bombs.
Thus, I am very curious as to why you advocate continuation of a policy
that has already failed the test of history?
>The line we cross when we make a preemptive strike is the casualty.
> Don't you see that we are giving people the world over a _cause_? Can
>you see how potentially dangerous that is?
I personally cannot. Al Qaeda twice tried to blow up the World Trade
Center, blew up two of our embassies, and blew up one of our warships and
it did not appear to need pre-emptive strikes as a cause.
Two guys felled the Federal Building in Oklahoma City - and they did ot
appear to need pre-emptive strikes as a cause.
One guy was upset at his estranged wife, and killed people through a
sniper's gun all around Washington, DC., and he certainly did not need the
US's pre-emptive strikes as a cause.
I don't think that Osama Bin Laden, Saddem Hussein, Kim Jong Il, or any
other assorted rogues and characters need a good reason to attack the
United States. All I know is that I certainly don't want to ever give
them the opportunity to use a nuclear weapon against us.
JDG
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