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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Moneysmith who wrote (7944)	2/13/2003 5:52:46 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) of 25898

In a few short months GWB's crusade against Saddam and his WMDs has managed to: 1. Alienate some of America's staunchest allies. I'm not sure how you assess these things, but at this point I'm inclined to question the quality of their "alli[ance]" if they don't support our right to defend ourselves. Put another way, didn't we commit air power to squash a dictatorial thorn in their side, in the form of Milosevic and his quest for a greater Serbia? 2. Undermine the UN and and NATO as international safety valves. Good riddance. 3.Dragged the American stock markets to new lows. Would you have national security initiatives be contingent upon their financial market impact? 4.created a national paranoia in the US reminiscent of the 1950's. A paranoia that is arguably long overdue, given the lack of public absorption of the implications of the 1993 WTC bombing; not to mention the overseas attacks on the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, and two U.S. embassies in Africa. September 11th and the anthrax attacks were an unfortunate crash course in the collective public recognition of our vulnerability. 5. Ruined the airline industry because we are now afraid to travel. The airline industry is ruined because it has never been much more than a chronically mismanaged, government-subsidized pig farm. Fiat justitia ruat caelum. All this before a shot has been fired..and no "smoking gun" has been found in Iraq yet. A gun smokes only when it has been fired. I think we've seen enough to take the 'gun' away before it's fired definitively. Who is winning this "phoney [sic] war?" As the troops who've returned from Afghanistan how phony the war is. ..good question. If you do say so yourself. If we weigh the damage inflicted on the US economy and the perceived loss of individual freedom and the associated fear out there against the current state of affairs in Iraq (unchanged basically)..the answer becomes clear. You're expecting results this quickly? You earlier said, aptly, that it'd been only a "few short months." And I note that you use the word "perceived" to qualify a number of your damage bullet points, implying - fairly, I think - that the results may indeed be a matter of perception. The final outcome remains unknown..it better be worth it. Or what? LPS5

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