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To: Bilow who wrote (27400)	4/29/2002 12:49:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (4) of 281500

You might as well argue that since Germany was so much bigger than Poland, their invasion would not cause them any difficulty, or that the Austrian Empire would surely not have a problem taking on the tiny state of Serbia. The fact is that Germany was destroyed in WW2 and Austria was destroyed in WW1 despite their having plenty of preponderance of military force over the nations they attacked. Serbia and Poland had been given security guarantees by or had defense treaties with much more powerful states. The US isn't going to face a world war for invading Iraq. We may face hostile words and less cooperation and friendliness from the rest of the world for awhile but that's about it. We aren't going to face a coalition of the rest of the world against us, or even the Middle East against us. (2) The US is accounts for much less of the percentage of total world economic power now than it did at the end of WW2. If you doubt this, I suppose I could dig up some links. I would guess that our percentage of world military power is also down, unless we're significantly more militarized than average. We are more militarized then most other countries. We have about 20% of the worlds gross production, and maybe 30 to 40% of the world's military power. (that's current military power, countries like Germany and Japan could greatly increase their military power if they wanted to and countries like India and China, while not rich of sophisticated could throw a lot of manpower around, so I would say we have a lower % of the world's military potential then we have of the world's current military power). When Clinton didn't force Iraq to accept inspectors, the inspector issue disappeared as a legitimate excuse for deliberately killing large numbers of kids (i.e. 18-year old Iraqi conscriptcs.) An argument could be made that it was never a legitimate excuse, but if it was, then IMO it still is. Tim

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