There was never honest debate from Washington in re Iraq, not with the independent democracies there wasn't, they took strictly the our way or the highway approach, they listened to nothing, they offered only threats and bribes, they had their own specific little plan of attack worked out, they were completely inflexible, they moved those troops into Kuwait and then used their presence there against the summer weather coming on as justification for timing of the attack
There was no genuine discussion with allies, ever ..... we on the net are not foreign offices relating our nations to the rest, we are just a bunch of doofi typing at each other ..... anything internal to the US, including speeches in the congress there, falls into the same category - essentially irrelevant to affairs between nations, beyond the degree to which it encourages cooperation, or as recently with Iraq, discourages cooperation .... the bloodlust euphoria among US nationals was quite successfully generated by the war marketeers in this case, that's about all you can say for such 'discussion' as took place, and it had deleterious effect in the wider world
Without a structure in which nations can talk openly with one another, treat each other as valid to the point where they listen to each other, you won't have effective international cooperation ..... you'll just have the current situation ad infinitum - the big dog barking orders at the rest ....... might-makes-right may work for you temporarily, but you won't build a team with that attitude |
