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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (26842)1/29/2004 4:43:23 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 793622
 
Look, I know I've been critical of the president's domestic shortcomings recently. But in the larger choice in this war there really isn't a choice. It's self-defense or winging it. When the consequences of winging it could be a biological/chemical/nuclear catastrophe in one of our cities, I'm not sure we have any real option but Bush.

This is nonsense. The problem--one problem--is that it is the Bush admin that is "winging it" in the war on terror. And that their actions are more guided by "What is good for industries and voters that back the Bush wing of the Republican Party is good for the USA" than they are by a true, thought out fight against terrorism. It isn't that the UN confers "legitimacy" on actions, it is that the Bush admin only listens to its own narrow circle of supporters, and thus engages in acts that aren't really conducive to well thought out actions. If you think that the Iraq invasion and, especially, the Aftermath in Iraq displays evidence of serious intelligence that has thought through the possibilities as opposed to a cowboy action based on completely unrealistic assumptions about human nature and the problems of Iraq and the mideast generally, well, I don't know what to say in response. Try listening to the talk by Peter Galbraith that I linked to LB yesterday. I don't have the time to itemize everything he pointed to.
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