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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (134516)5/27/2004 5:58:12 AM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I will answer for Korea: we should move all our troops out of there (the S Koreans seem to want this), they are merely serving as a tripwire, and the way the regime is behaving, they may make war more likely rather than less. There are certainly not enough of them to fight with.

This is a rare point of agreement between hawks and doves. The American troops in S. Korea are basically hostages of N. Korea.

As for Saddam Hussein, he was a big problem for the US regardless of AQ, he was moving closer and closer to the terrorists, and the US-maintained "box" that everybody else likes to talk about confidently was looking like a swiss cheese.

Containment was cheap and highly effective. Iraq was incredibly weak and no threat even to his neighbors, nevermind the U.S. He didn't even have a single working Scud missile!

But don't take my word for it, read what Centcom Gen. Zinni has been saying.
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