Barry,
The strategy of containment that has been practiced by the previous administrations has been very successful against Iraq. They haven't been aggressive in 10 years, and they probably don't have the capability now. The "threat" of Iraq somehow passing complex "weapons of mass destruction" to terrorists, to somehow import them into the US, and to somehow effectively inflict mass casualties, is a political invention.
The US will never be able to police the world to eliminate everything that can cause us harm. And Iraq is on the lower end of our worries, SH has never been a terrorist in the real sense of the word. There has only been one significant terrorist act on our soil in the last 10 years, and it was almost exclusively the work of Saudis. If our strategy is to preempt any possible, no matter how remote, terrorist action against the US, we better be prepared for at least a couple of dozen more wars. And frankly, it won't help.
The world perceives this as a Bush family matter. And I'm not at all sure they are wrong.
This week starts "shock and awe". PLEASE, just for a moment, try to picture yourself as an innocent worker in a backward country, about to face a bombing mission called "shock and awe". Gather your wife and kids around in your house, in your town, and try to imagine how that would feel in your, real life world.
Then tell me about how threatened you feel by Iraqi terrorism.
John |
