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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: hmaly who wrote (157424)1/5/2003 5:47:22 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1582807
 
With Bosnia, Kosovo et al, our NATO allies felt threatened. They saw the conflict there was destabilizing the region and could threaten all of Eastern Europe.

With Iraq, our closest relationships [I refrain from calling them allies since I don't think they are in any sense of the word] do not feel that Saddam presents a threat and have said so publicly.

This statement is nothing more than rationalizing to provide cover for a position that is based on political differences as opposed to righteous or moral ones.

Liberals have a bit of a quandary in that there was less reason for us to be in Yugoslavia than there is in Iraq. Not to say we shouldn't have been in Yugoslavia, but certainly, there are many more reasons for us to be in Iraq.

It should be deeply saddening to Americans to see the Left politicize these matters the way they have/are. There was a time when the Left would not have crossed that line. Seems to me that era ended about November 23, 1963...
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