Maybe I misunderstood this but when somebody is called a butcher he is made easy prey
Bill Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 03:31:06 (-0800) soula avramidis writes:
>Google this "chomsky friend saddam" you will find this to the first
>http://www.epsilonpress.se/ncinter/ncdimaggio20021206.htm
>you then do find friend and you will find this paragraph:
>
>'Do you believe the Gulf War was primarily to secure American
>access to Kuwaiti oil? Did it also have to do with teaching
>Saddam a lesson for his aggressive behavior with Kuwait? Do
>you have any insight into which factor was more of a determinant
>for the Bush Administration?
>
>I think the main reason for the first Gulf War was what�s called
>�credibility�: Saddam had defied orders; no one can get away with that.
>Ask any Mafia Don and you�ll get the explanation. There�s good reason
>to suppose that a negotiated withdrawal would have been possible, but
>that wouldn�t make the point; again, ask your favorite Don.
>
>The reason for leaving Saddam in place was explained very openly and
>frankly: As the diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times,
>Thomas Friedman, explained when the US backed Saddam�s crushing
>of the Kurds, �the best of all worlds� for Washington would be an
>�iron-fisted junta� ruling Iraq just as Saddam did, but with a different
>name, because his is now embarrassing, and since no one like that
>seemed to be around, they�d have to settle with second-best, their old
>friend and ally the butcher of Baghdad himself. You can find plenty of
>material about all of this in what I wrote at the time, reprinted in
>"Deterring Democracy"; more has appeared since.'
>
>Now is not this an open game ticket to Bush. ...
This is nothing like an "open game ticket" --- quite the opposite.
Chomsky is *criticizing* the resort to force, not approving of it.
Bill
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