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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (136370)6/12/2004 1:35:26 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
OK, let's talk about the possibility that Saddam could have purchased a nuke. How is this different from, say, Quaddafi (whose daughter we killed in a bombing raid) purchasing a nuke, or any number of our declared and secret enemies purchasing a nuke? North Korea, which rails against us with blood-curdling language every day, already has nukes. For all I know, there are plenty of resentful Russian scientist with ready access to nukes that hold grudges against us -- or just want to fatten their bank account. What is so special about Saddam -- a man we helped gain power in the sixties, a man we openly supported in the eighties, and a man we let off the hook in Gulf I? Quaddafi is our friend now. Who can say that Saddam (or his successor) couldn't have been our friend tomorrow?

Using preemptive violence to resolve problems that can be solved without violence is a stupid way to act in the dangerous world we live in. We simply increase the probability that one of these days a catastrophe will strike us.
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