--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ritu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Similarly, I find the notion of bombing a people into democracy and > gratitude stupid. And I really honestly do not believe that Bush's > failure of imagination and my recognition of the same makes me > responsible for Saddam's crimes, or the hypothetical continuation > thereof.
And I find the notion of winning gratitude while standing idly by as a megalamoniac dictator terrorizes the population, starts futile wars with his neighbors, and leaves his country impoversihed while completely enriching himself to be even stupider. See, I can mock your position as easily as you can mock mine.... > Now if there had been a serious attempt to find a different, less > destructive way to get rid of Saddam before the invasion and the tarring > of every opposer as a supporter of Saddam you might have had a point. > But there wasn't, and therefore you don't. You wouldn't be referring to the generally-supposed policy of France, Russia, and China, among others, to work towards the lifting of sanctions on Saddam Hussein's Iraq, would you? Oh nevermind.... On the other hand, the policy of sanctions, No-Fly-Zones, diplomatic isolation, etc. was given something on the order of 10+ years to work. If a American Republicans/conservatives were proposing sticking with a policy that had failed for 10+ years, I wonder what your reaction would have been... JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
