Katha P: > >Why Saddam? Saddam was an evil dictator, but Iraq was not the world's > >only human-rights basket case. What about Iran, North Korea, Sudan, > >Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Congo, Burma? What about the Russians in > >Chechnya and the Chinese in Tibet? ...
Bill Lear: > What about Israel? you don't understand, do you? Israel is a free-market _democracy_. Not for the people who don't live in the occupied territories and aren't Moslem or Druse? Oh yeah, Israel has some problems. But they are merely the growing pains of a nascent democracy... they've had only 59 years to work the kinks out of their system. Besides, they're loyal allies in the War Against Terror. And they support the idea of the idea of the idea of a Palestinian state and promise not to build any new settlements on the West Bank. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
