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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (139445)7/8/2004 4:21:18 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It makes a lot of difference. Your argument, basically, has been that that Saddam was dangerous because he was irrational, and unpredictable. I think he was predictable, if one took the time to understand him- which means your argument falls apart.

You see - at the end you talk about this "loose cannon" in the ME. The crux of your argument is that he was a loose cannon- and that is why my argument is important- I say that he was not a loose cannon at all. At the most he was a misunderstood cannon. He probably could have been quite useful to the US if we had played him right, and understood him correctly.
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