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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: michael97123 who wrote (65558)9/7/2002 10:19:50 AM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
I am surprised that Patrick Buchanan remember so little of the history he was surely aware off. Yes, Stalin and Khrushchev did not engage in nuclear blackmail, bu do you know what led Khruchshev to try it in Cuba? It was our meek response to Bulganin's nuclear blackmail in 1956. Khruchshev would have not gotten us to the brink of a nuclear confrontation if that prior yielding did not indicate to the Soviets that our resolve is less than "complete". It took Kennedy's "ball squeezing" (and negotiating away some Turkish outdated missile sites) to remove that threat.

Frankly, I do not think that we will go to war with Iraq, simply for the reason that there are no strategic goals that cannot be achieved without blood shed and war. Furthermore, without an actual open provocation from Saddam (and the man is very careful not to provide any excuse), such a unilateral action will open the international scene to endless regional "preemptive" strikes, each based on the "notion" that a "clear and present danger" exists. An "unprovoked" attack on Iraq will set a new international precedence as to "when preemptive strikes" are justified. It will lower the barriers to armed conflicts, and could eventually plunge the world in fires from tens of regional conflicts.

Zeev
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