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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (50328)10/8/2002 8:47:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
What a crock, yet he's willing to send 300,000 servicemen to certain biological warfare attacks, death, injury. He's willing to risk the retaliation certain to be exponential to anything we're at risk for now.

If you think cowering and acting 'nice' is safer in the long run then I suggest you have not understood much about Arab politics in general or the Islamists in particular.

The Arabs despise weakness. They know what to think about a great nation that does nothing when smaller nations and even gangs of terrorists declare war on it, attack its forces, proclaim it the Great Satan and themselves the victors of Allah. They think, that great nation may be strong but it has no balls. So they give it no respect, and increase their payoffs to the Islamists.

Saddam Hussein is one of those who has been proclaiming himself victor over us. Removing him is step two in regaining respect in the Gulf (removing the Taliban was step one).

Regaining respect is very much in the US' interests. Arab nations that have a healty respect for the US will be much less likely to solve their internal problems by paying off their local Islamists and pointing them at the US and Israel. That has been a cost-free option for the dictatorships of the Arab world for too long now.
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