--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Beck wrote: > > > > Saddam Hussein is a monster, and I'm glad he's > gone, but > > there are monsters in China and Syria and North > Korea and > > Cuba and Libya - why don't we go after them? > > > First, these monsters have different "hid dice": > Saddam might > be the worst of them _by far_. [some of them are > quite new in the > monster business, like Hafez Assad's heir, whose > name I can't > remember] > > Second, these monsters have friends, and if the USA > wants > to take them down, probably it would have to take > the allies > down too. Or maybe taking them down would _turn_ > their > allies into new monsters. > > Alberto Monteiro
Plus, the argument that "we're not doing the right thing everywhere, therefore we must do the right thing _nowhere_" is not terribly persuasive... ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
