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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (177429)11/3/2003 8:29:06 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1574491
 
Tim,

re: I know the standard way that the term discretionary is used when dealing with government spending is to refer to spending on things other then entitlements and debt. If you use discretionary that way then yes a large part of government spending is not discretionary but I don't consider that fact to be significant in this context.

Well, everybody else does.

re: If you mean where would we be if we hadn't invaded Iraq, then we would probably still face invading in the future.

Never know, he might have become our best friend again. Political expediency creates strange bedfellows.

re: If you mean where would be if we had just dropped the whole idea of keeping Saddam in a box then I think we would be headed towards a worse situation then we are in now.

No, I didn't say to stop keeping him in a box. That was a very successful strategy, and the evidence post war makes it even more compelling.

No, I meant that question more in the context of world politics. We would be mostly at peace. No death counts. A little more focus on getting OBL, the real villain that attacked this country. Certainly the deficit problem wouldn't be as bad; certainly Bush would be more popular. NATO, the UN would be perceived to be stronger. America wouldn't have such a huge negative perception around the world.

And frankly, we wouldn't be having this debate, the country wouldn't be this divided. Iraq is not a consensus war; in that way it's very similar to Vietnam. It's ugly at home and abroad and it's going to get uglier.

John
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