On the basis of what statements of mine are you characterizing my "old beliefs", I wonder? Can you cite any? Or was that just to call me the L word instead of responding?
LindyBill, do you think we should invade North Korea for the purpose of "spreading democracy" and "kicking out a tyrant"? You couldn't do it to a more monstrous guy than Kim Il Jong.
Then, how about invading Saudi Arabia?
Iran?
Syria?
Cuba is a nasty spot, too. Invade?
Why aren't we invading those places, kicking out their tyrants, and spreading Democracy? Because it's perhaps not so simple, making these calculations?
Uzbekistan is a vicious dictatorship. It's got everything. Torture, suppression of political parties, official corruption, cult of personality, and its oppression is generating an extreme Islamic resistance response. We could crush them in a minute. Why don't we? Oh yeah, they're our pals.
How about Pakistan? A military dictatorship turning a blind eye to the dissemination by its nuclear scientists of WMD technologies. This is not like the speculation Colin Powell presented to the world about al quaeda hobnobbing with Iraq. It's fact. Why don't we invade them?
I wonder why we chose Iraq to invade. I wonder if it was for the reasons we citizens were sold. *thinking, thinking* |
