At 05:01 PM 3/11/2003 +0000 Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>So, to return to the question, who should employ the `sheriff'?
>
> * Should the rest of the world depend on the US?
Yes. I simply don't trust anyone else at this point. Ultimately, I
see the US as being ultimately responsible to itself, even though we shall
try to build consensus among our friends and allies whenever possible -
even when doing so costs American lives (see today's WSJ editorial)
>I don't think governments outside the US want to depend on the Bush
>administration and its successors.
At this point, it doesn't really matter what they want. They have shown
themselves to be completely unconcerned with the safety and lives of
American citizens. Indeed, they insist that the US must be first struck
by nuclear, chemical, or biological attack, and then the US must prove the
origins of that attack, before acting.
The American people have clearly decided (55% support war on Iraq without
UN authorization) that this standard of absorbing a first strike is
unacceptable - and quite frankly, we have the power to protect ourselves
and we will use it.
After the fiasco of the way the world has treated us on this leadup to the
war on Iraq, I can't possibly support subverting America's right to
pre-emptive self-defense to some other non-American controlled body.
(cont. in separate message)
JDG
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