Everything in its own time. If India succeeded sooner, best wishes to them.
Actually, I don't agree with "fate-based" democratic movements.
It requires courage, suffering, persecution, and an absolute conviction of being right (and being able to persuade your rivals as well, of just how right you are.. :0)
No one in Palestine has been willing, or survived Arafat's wrath, to stand up for compromising with Israel, despite the obvious reality that, so long as Israel exists, a Palestinian state cannot be formed without such compromise and cooperation.
And even now, people such as yourself advocate Israel just "disbanding" its government and military and "trusting" their fates to the Arabs and Palestinians..
Just ridiculous...
Kim Jong Il is our latest boogeyman.
Someone to fill in while the inspections are going on?
That's ALSO ridiculous Len.. Trouble with Kim Jong Il is the LAST thing the Bush administration wants at the moment as it continues to make its case to deal with Saddam.
But it displays just what happens when these totalitarian dinosaurs get ahold of nukes and start believing they can blackmail the wealthier nations into subsidizing their corruption and cruelty. Nothing less than outright armed robbery... (despite our having bigger weapons which we refuse to unholster).
I guess you find some sense of satisfaction that some 2 million N. Koreans have died of starvation due to this unwillingness to confront N. Korea's government and demand they moderate their policies (and certainly their rhetoric).
The United States is the only country that has used nuclear weaponry against anyone, so are you saying that America is evil?
And I would use it were the circumstances the same with any other country, if it meant saving a million American soldiers from becoming casualities.
And certainly if it were aimed at a state which had launched a sneak attack at us, and who's people were obedient (and thus complicit) in their country's aggression.
Nuclear weapons are just that.. weapons.. Big Weapons with massive explosive power... They can be used to achieved "good" ends, or evil ones.. They can be used against non-democratic despots in defense of democracy, or they can be used by these despots in order to subjugate and tyrannize others.
People like you would believe we were "terrorizing" the Japanese people and should never have used them.. People like me would rather use them than have to explain to the families of those American soldiers who didn't have to die.
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