It might be better to get away from x-lateral as a term if you're going to define it that way, GST, because it allows without qualification that Hussein had legitimacy to form one of the sides in the issue .... this won't wash with many who did oppose invasion by the Coalition of Bullied and Bribed due to its nature and the dictatorial way in which the decision to invade was imposed, then subsequently the absolute lack of adequate governance once the place had been shot up
Seeing the 'two sides' that way falls straight into the bogus binary choices presented by the neocons .... who did have some basic points that needed to be more front and centre, imho, primarily that regimes like that do present a danger, over and above the fact that they shame us as a species .... the neocon crime is in the way they cook up these hasty decisions, sell them to the US public, and then impose them on the Rest of Us
Something did need to be done about Hussein, imho, just not something that narrowly based and poorly thought-out ... a broader true coalition of democracies, with or without a component of arab/muslim regimes alongside, and with a decent plan for follow-through and reconstruction of Iraq - this would have brought far more support and stood a far better chance of improving the situation .... too late now of course, the spiral is downward, but let's hope something of the lesson gets learned in the process ...... anyway, happy new year FADG ... cheers |
