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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (3977)1/27/2003 10:58:25 AM
From: Ed Huang  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
>>If the U.S. continues having wars -- yesterday with the Balkans, then with Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, then with North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia -- then it'll be the end of the United States as an empire. I can't tell you when. Some would say 10 years, some would say 20 years. But we're not talking 50 years or 100 years. This is not going to be the century of the United States.<<

I agree, the risk of being the beginning of the end of the US empire is very real once the US starts the Iraq war.

The great difference for this war than the other wars U.S. involved is this war is strongly opposed virtually by all other nations except the strong backing and pushing by Israel and a shaky ally Britain. And the US government also fail to get the majority support at home. Now we saw France and Germany united and confronting the US war move. I believe that a much bigger and stronger coalitions, including Russia & China and other countries join force against the U.S./Israel expansion is in the cards. The US may win the Iraq war but will lose its global political power and influence she has enjoyed for decades. And there's a high risk that it'll bring political and economical unrest at home and further heighten the risks of terror attacks to the country (some of the points in post #3268 of my brief summary / news digest about the costs and consequences of the Iraq war are more being a fact than speculation).

Unfortunately, we can hardly see any sign yet that Bush administration wants to quit the war.

P.S. Sharon is supposed to have a major victory in Israel's election tomorrow. Not surprisingly, Bush's attitude on war in State of the Union Address will be in line with what Sharon will call for.
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