--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This strikes me as classic "generational arrogance" - the old saw that > > *our generation* dealt with threats much more sensibly than the > > young'uns out there. > > I like to delude myself that I'm in the same generation as you, so > it's not generational arrogance on my part. Since I became an > official adult in 1992, the major crises have the wars in the > Balkans, the genocides in Rwanda and Sudan, the terrorist attacks of > 11/9, and the continued proliferation of nuclear, biological and > chemical weapons (you may add to this list as you wish; certainly > some natural disasters belong on there too). The responses to all of > these seem to me to be inadequate to disastrous.
Of course, the rest of the world had a great opportunity to demonstrate that they had changed their policy for dealing with genocidal regimes when it came to dealing with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and sadly, significant portions of the rest of the world badly flunked that test. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
