Re: " Have I missed something?"
>>> Looks like it.
"Is the Gulf of Tonkin in American waters? We were indisputably attacked in American territory."
>>> <G> But not by Iraq, we were attacked by a non-state actor. (There was no gulf of Tonkin attack on our destroyers, it was a sham, anyway.)
"The immediate agency might have been Al- Qaida, but Iraq has long been considered the primary obstacle to change in the Middle East,"
>>> Actually Saudi Arabia much more directly financed the attacks, and paid for the terrorists training over the years, and promotes it's own special brand of fundamentalist Islam that is at the heart of intolerence in the middle east.... and IRAN has DIRECTLY paid for the deaths of hundreds of Americans over the years, from the Marines in Beruit, to the Kobar Towers, to other bombings. THOSE are REAL attacks.
"...The Domino Theory is no comparison to terrorists making direct attacks on Americans, especially in our own land."
>>> Yeah, you are right, the Domino theory postulated a FAR WORSE series of events for America, proposing that much of the world - right up to our shores would go Commie - and that would have been a VASTLY more serious threat to our very existence as a nation. Mere terrorism by non-state actors is an annoyance by comparison (if the tenets underlying the Domino Theory had actually been TRUE.)
"Public sentiment overwhelmingly favors some prescription drug coverage."
>>> So what? They supported the Great Society expansions of social programs TOO, else they would have never passed.
>>> As I pointed out: Bush is putting his finger prints on - and claiming credit for - the LARGEST SINGLE EXPANSION OF SOCIAL ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS SINCE LBJ'S GREAT SOCIETY - and is increasing the size and expense and authoritarian grasp of the federal government as a result: exactly the opposite of what Reagan and Gingrich proposed.
>>> And, he is posed to exceed Reagans massive run-up of the national debt, before he is finished. |
