Mike M, I'm so glad your world is so black and white. Most of the political and diplomatic world is varying shades of gray.
You seem like you're still fighting a war that ended over a decade ago. You may not know it, but it was ended the way it was in order to keep that regime in power and to provide stability in the region. If I had your attitude, I'd still be pissed at the people who serve me food at the local Chinese restaurant for being from Vietnam.
If time permits, I'll list the dozen or so people the US has been considering replacements. It's pretty widely available and was printed in several news magazines last fall.
As for friends and enemies, I beg to differ. The US has interests. Today's friend can be tomorrow's enemy, depending on whose interest is served better. You mention mass murder, but you forget that Stalin was a very good friend of ours while he served our interests. He killed far more people than Hitler, and became an enemy only when our interests changed when the war ended.
Mao was a mass murderer, but Nixon went and met with him and opened up relations with China.
See, it's not so clear is it.
BTW, if you think the US can stop every country in the world from having nuclear weapons, you're fooling yourself. What makes the US the one who decides who can have weapons and who can not? There are several countries who the US has normal relations with that have not signed nuclear non-proliferation treaties with.
Anyway, let's forget this and just hope GWB is playing election games and using Saddam to get more Republicans in office. |
