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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (23364)1/7/2004 5:26:28 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793660
 
The people who do not see the sense in going to Iraq are usually the same set of people who think the whole matter should be treated as a police case,

I'm not so sure about that.

I remember long and arduous discussions here and elsewhere as I was trying to determine in which paradigm 9/11 fit. I analyzed it six ways to Sunday. It is not easy to shift from a police paradigm to a war paradigm but in the end, that's were I came out. That was a complex process and I think it's cavalier to go there easily. War is serious business.

Where I bail out on the war paradigm is going from a war on terror to a war on Iraq. I never thought that case was made. I know plenty of people who didn't buy Iraq. Some of them are in police mode, as you say, others are in war mode. They just think taking the war to Iraq was a stretch. We are setting a precedent there that we wouldn't want the world following--that it's OK to invade other sovereign nations whenever they cross you.

I find silly the notion that terrorists can be brought to justice in courts of law. That type of police mode seems as absurd to me as it does to you. But there's a police mode hybrid that seems reasonable to me, which is using the military to go after pockets of terrorists and getting a little street justice in the process.
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