At 04:17 PM 4/7/2005 -0700, Nick wrote: >On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:01:52 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote >> It means that there wasn't a third option between >> going to war to remove Hussein and leaving him in >> power. It didn't exist. No one proposed one that was >> even vaguely plausible. You could choose one or the >> other. > >Really? No other options? Then what of all those that opposed the war, >including almost every major religious organization across the globe? Was the >Pope trying to stop democracy in Iraq? The World Council of Churches, the >Conference of European Churches, the National Council of Churches of Christ in >the USA, the Middle East Council of Churches, the churches of Norway, Finland >and Denmark, Greece, the United Methodist Church, my own Lutheran church and >on and on and on -- were they all trying to stop democracy in Iraq when they >opposed this war and proposed other options.
I think that the answer to that is unequivocally yes, in effect. The policies advocated by the above would have resulted in Iraq's most recent democratic elections not happening. That is not to say that they all had the conscious intent of opposing democracy in Iraq, but that is the logical consequence of their positions, and so is one that should properly be defended by the holders of those positions. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
