Nick Arnett asked rhetorically,
Why did the British decide to pull out [of India]? Was it their
good-hearted nature? Was it because of fear of violence? Or did
it have nothing to do with anything they did? Did they not resist
until they recognized that resistance was futile?
Nick Arnett asked
Do you mean to characterize Iraq under Saddam as an empire???
While a great deal of effort has been undertaken over the past 3/4 of
a century to inspire people in Iraq to think of themselves as `Iraqi',
it is clear that many of the people whom Saddam ruled thought of
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:40:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam
Mukunda wrote
... virtually no one
thought that inspections were working _before_ the
war.
No one? No one? What is your definition of
working here? Certainly no one
saw Saddam stepping
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
Yes. Almost no one I am aware of in a professional
capacity thought that the Iraqis had been disarmed.
There was not _one_ intelligence service in the world
that thought the Iraqis had been successfully disarmed
by the
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Gautam
Mukunda wrote
I was talking about him immediately stepping down
or
cooperating with the
inspections. I find it hard to have a conversation
when the subject changes
so abruptly.
Then _stop changing
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Change without war (was something else)
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
Nick,. do you know _anything at all_ about South
Africa? I mean, like how the governments were chosen?
I'll give you a hint - F.W. De Klerk was the
_elected_ President of South Africa. You think that
might have made a
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question for you. It appears to me that
there were changes in
British public support for violent methods between
1919 and 1949. If there
were not, why not run over Ghandi? From what I
understand from Neli, there
were also changes over
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT), Gautam
Mukunda wrote
And how did that come to pass? Because the white
minority *led* the nation to
end apartheid? Or was it the leadership of Nelson
Mandela, Desmond Tutu and
the countless crowds who
Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Beyond that, I'd bet another Doug Nickle that Bush insiders had a
good idea that if there were any WMDs in Iraq they were few and
far between because they were directing the inspectors where to go
and what to look for ...
(I read the comment
* Gautam Mukunda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dictatorships, by contrast are (so far as I can see it) incredibly
_resistant_ to public pressure. Why wouldn't they be? They don't
listen to their public at home, why would they care about the World
Court? There are many differences between Iraq
At 01:55 PM 4/8/2005 -0700, Nick wrote:
In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along
with British and French units, has become a semipermanent fact of
life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the
no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq,
A slightly different question:
Which is more resistant to transformation to the
other, a democracy or a
dictatorship? Or are they about the same?
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
Interestingly enough, there's a fair bit of work on
this topic. Above a certain point of
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:40:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
... virtually no one
thought that inspections were working _before_ the
war.
No one? No one? What is your definition of working here? Certainly no one
saw Saddam stepping down immediately and no one thought he was
Nick wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:40:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
... virtually no one
thought that inspections were working _before_ the
war.
No one? No one? What is your definition of working here? Certainly
no one saw Saddam stepping down immediately and no one thought he was
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:18:57 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote
In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along
with British and French units, has become a semipermanent fact of
life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the
no-fly zones over northern and
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