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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (153617)10/18/2002 2:58:07 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1580147
 
What would you do? Condemn the guy, thereby threatening your military presence in Korea? Pull out of South Korea, thereby inviting the North to come invade again? Demand a regime change, thereby playing GloboCop and meddling in the affairs of foreign governments?

Ten, but that's what we are doing in Iraq.....playing Globocop..actually Globoterminator.

These aren't easy decisions. These are decisions that hold the lives of millions of people in the balance, not to mention the entire course of history on the Korean peninsula.

Now as for Iraq, I'm less familiar with the reasons why we supported them in the first place. But I do know that the world was a lot different during the Cold War than it is now. Luckily we won the Cold War without a single ICBM fired, but now we have to clean up the mess that we left behind. And that includes disarming power-hungry madmen that we helped to arm in the first place.

That's the illusion.......we need to clean up the world's messes........globocop meets globoterminator. We didn't like it when England messed in our affairs and that led to the War of 1812. We didn't like it when Russia set up missiles in Cuba and that led to the missile crisis of the 60s. We didn't like it when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. How many times have people complained on this thread when they think our sovereignty is threatened?

And yet, we think we have the right to mess with other countries and their sovereignty. Its one thing to go after a radical fundamentalist ideologue like bin Laden, and its another to mess with countries and their sovereignty. We have a long history of the latter, and only our denial keeps us from facing that truth. To whit, we only have to listen to D. Ray and his justifications for attacking Iraq.......because we're stronger!

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