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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SirRealist who wrote (37080)8/11/2002 6:09:50 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
carp & limburger sammich

How did you know what I had for lunch? (gatta clean out that fridge!)

sane pacifists as Mao Zedong, Stalin

They were heads of two large countries, and we were lucky enough to be able to contain them without a Nuclear war. We are going to have a hard time staying that lucky.

We have a whole raft of small countries coming up that will want Atomic Bombs, and they are getting easier and easier to make. If you want to project out twenty to fifty years, any paranoid psychopath running a small country is going to be able to get one.

So we not only need a policy for handling Saddam, we need it to cover this situation as it comes up again and again. Are we going to stop them when it gets like it is with Saddam, or are we going to set on our hands? This problem is not going to go away.

The other decision we have to make is the immediate one of settling the terrorist problem. Are we going to stop now, and just try to stomp on each little terrorist group as they come up, or will be try to change the equation with the Islamic countries so that we don't have the support available for terrorists?

If we take the first approach, and temporize with these countries, the problem is only going to get worse, IMO.
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