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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: gao seng who wrote (219250)1/16/2002 7:52:20 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Some good points... and some weak points in that Cato article... but the main thrust of it was true: we won't be overthrowing Saddam. Those days have come and gone.

>>> Yes, there would be a "new round of headaches" but that goes without saying.

>>> As to involving us in "an endless nation-building mission", well... I know Bush campaigned specifically against 'nation building'... but he seems to have had a conversion once in office... we seem to be doing quite a bit of that right now, and rather successfully, to.

>>> As far as: "Washington would have to decide whether to commit itself to preserving the territorial integrity of Iraq or to give its blessing to the secessionists (the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south). Either option has a serious downside."

>>> Yep, that's right. But there could be upsides as well as downsides... even in Turkey (see my last post to Zoltie).
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