Politics for Pros- moderated Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (402)	5/5/2003 3:31:10 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (1) of 793926

reasonable question--and the answer, in my view, is this: foreign policy that is inconsistently practiced is dangerous... Worse, though, than inconsistently practicing foreign policy is the idea of attacking another country pre-emptively. How can we now argue with India if they decide to pre-emptively attack Pakistan, or if China wants to do the same with Taiwan? If we can now attack any country simply because we SUPPOSE they're a threat to us, then this world is gonna be a helluva lot more dangerous place than it was. Why is it an "all or nothing" proposition? Which is the safer number: (n-0) sponsors of terrorism or (n-1)? I prefer (n-1) and perhaps someday we can do a slow recursive (n-1) loop. Maybe. Sticking with (n-0) simply because we can't simultaneously do (n-n) isn't a productive solution. Can't solve all the world's problems so — let's not do anything about any of them? Just let it all rot? No thanks. "Okay--I've read about those payments, and they're (of course) deplorable; however, Iran and Syria and Saudi Arabia and Egypt (am I leaving anyone out here? I bet I am), also support terrorism against Israel, and somehow I doubt that we're gonna invade them, too. My point is that there's a hell of a lot of countries around the world that are headed by evil people, and we don't even dream of invading THEM. Nor should we..."

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next