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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (88274)3/31/2003 11:58:40 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>> Most of all, America lost her virtue. To the rest of the world, she no longer stands for Justice, for Right, for Good.

As far as the Arab world is concerned, we lost that years ago. The only way we could have kept it in their eyes would have been to have supported the Palestinians against Israel. Clinton's failure at Camp David 2 was the nail in the coffin for any hope of US virtue in Arab eyes.

I don't care about that part of the Arab world that's been obsessed with the territorial dispute over there.

I do care when the goodwill of the world toward Americans is squandered. I really don't know, and somewhat doubt, if it would have even been possible to convince the majority of the world of the well foundedness of removal of Saddam by force, though it's a job that imho needs to be done (among so many others on earth...)

It seems likely to me that the administration really did believe it would be a "cakewalk" and would have thought twice if they envisioned world wide anti-American demonstrations or other hitches.

I wonder what the chances of capturing Hussein alive are ? If that miracle comes to pass, he should be turned over to a Tribunal Pénal International so we could see if Europe and the UN are "moral" enough to pass judgement.
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