Yes, i'm agreeing with you on this ... though i wasn't impressed with the way the french handled all of that, and thoroughly opposed to at least one of the statements our prime ministre made at the time ... but overall, yes exactly, the greater evil of the whole Iraq 'war' was the tendency of current US admin to set themselves up as dictators
It was your wording with which i was taking exception, the last line - 'It was a matter of US policy that turned the world against us.' - #reply-19125688
I have most certainly not turned against you, i see you here making sensible statements on the matter .... it's a mistake i think to identify ourselves overly with our national governments du jour, as if we were but cogs in their machinery ..... we are not, we are human beings with free will and the right, nay the duty, to figure out for ourselves who are the terrorists most damaging to our interests
... started typing a thing on canadian defense policy, but have to go now ... later .... briefly, many of us here would like to see the g.w.n. defense budget doubled or tripled, the risk however is that a force with increased effectiveness would attract more coercion out of DC neocons, they would demand the power to specify exactly where and when and how it would be used ..... later .... cheers |
