How many US citizens have died due to obesity, smoking, alcohol, traffic accidents
Just to nitpick, with the exception of the traffic accidents, which are, um, accidental, most of these people died as a result of free choices they made. If we like freedom, we must put up with the result of free choices. Slightly different case from dying as a result of a terror mega-attack.
One more point: the speculations when Saddam might get nukes - in two, five, ten years - should consider his age. He is 65, in a decade he'll be 75! In my view it's more likely that the problem will be solved biologically before he launches another major military operation.
Problems like this don't go away, they just get inherited by the next generation. Crippled or not, my money's on Uday doing away with his more reasonable brother -- just look at the inheritance struggles under the Ottomans for some prime examples. We had Syria contained too, before Boy Assad inherited from his father. Now Syria is supplying both Hizbullah and Iraq and is part of the problem again. |
