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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: quehubo who wrote (137104)6/19/2004 11:49:05 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Dont worry if Saudi Arabia falls we wont be alone working to restore it. There will be hundreds of millions of others affected and highly motivated.

I'm not sure how much of a datapoint living in France was, but I have the impression they'll be able to withstand almost unlimited pain and still keep their heads in the sand on this. We'll largely have to go anything alone if it comes to stabilizing Saudi Arabia in the event of the present government there falling.

I'm still of the opinion that it would have been more cost effective to simply sacrifice the Iraqi public and continue with the stupid game of sanctions and "inspections" (ha ha....) It wouldn't have been morally exemplary, but then what is in international diplomacy ? Nobody is demonstrating in the streets about Sudan that I see. The billions already spent on the Iraq invasion would go a long way in the sanctions and inspections song and dance we were playing before the invasion. It didn't have to be perfect, just effective enough to keep Iraq from turning into another pre-9/11 Afghanistan.

I really hope I'm proven wrong in the long run, and what we've done turns out to have been the right thing though. But I simply don't know what to conclude at present.
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