Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Sdgla who wrote (237611)	7/24/2007 9:57:33 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I'm not sure how great an excuse it is to cry "But everyone else was wrong too!" It's especially hard to cry that when other people didn't go to war over it. It's even harder to cry it when there were people who weren't wrong, at the time. But you go ahead, and defend mistakes. If a democratic president had called for a war over this I'd be just as pissed off. You, I suppose, would be defending that president...NOT. That "lunatic" used WMD on his own people, and on the Iranians. He just wasn't a threat to us, except in terms of ME stability. He had always been a fairly regional actor. If he had used them AGAIN on some actor in the ME, would I care enough to start a war which would end up costing billions, make us look foolish, incompetent and hypocritical, and mire us down in a commitment that would have no clear endpoint for years and years? No. You wring your hands all you want- but in my opinion you'd be a damn site more rational if you were wringing them over Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next