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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Lou Weed who wrote (124758)2/16/2004 9:50:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
My argument is not to put the French/Russian positions in a better light than ours but rather to point out that we have behaved similarly in the past.

So what, Michael, so what? So we can never improve our policies, because our hands are dirty? So we can never switch from the failed realpolitik of the past to a fp that aims to encourage democracy in the Middle East? So you will support France's policy over ours, because we supported Saddam in the 80's, even though France was supporting Saddam day before yesterday, after he had proved himself ten times worse than he was in the early 80s?

This pursuit of the joys of moral indignation at the US leads you to some most peculiar bedfellows. And to supporting a fp that would have left Saddam in power. Is that really what you would have preferred?
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