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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: greenspirit who wrote (114324)9/10/2003 7:41:15 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi Michael,

IMO, the threat itself lacked the clarity necessary to function as a stable fixed point around which to rally once the President moved it to Iraq from bin Laden. The precipitating event had only a tenuous connection at best to Iraq which the administration has been unable to verify successfully enough to persuade the doubters, and the hoped-for validation of WMD has left slightly eggy faces and further intensified the qualms of those who were opposed to the timing of the war in the first place. If one were already a believer in the PNAC positions, the National Security Strategy may be a comfortable fit, but for many, the neocon position is just not that palatable.

So asking for people to tend their gardens and leave the serious business to their leaders without questioning the way in which they have gone about this would make me feel a little bit-- Germanic. (“Adolph who?”) That sort of statement rouses the same visceral reaction in me that "barefoot in the kitchen" used to. I believe that it is our patriotic duty to ask, to read, to learn I do start with a bias TOWARD my government, but I would never accept everything it does without question- and the fact that I CAN question, is why I have a bias toward my government :)
(Italy, you dog!!! I am green. Is everyone there? Hope all is well.)
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