[Saddam] was NOT interested in any Islamic rule of law. HE was the rule of law.
mq, you are half right. Saddam was perfectly okay with Islamic rule of law, as long as it was still him. Did you miss hearing about the 50 grandiose mosques Saddam built, or the Koran he had written in his own blood, or his attempts to call himself caliph? Saddam tried to coopt the Islamic movement, and of course he was willing to make deals with Al Qaida, as they were with him. My enemy's enemy is my friend. Oldest rule in the book, which our CIA dodos think they are too smart to notice.
Obama is right and McCain is wrong. Tell Pakistan what's required by way of getting Osama. If they can't or won't do it, then inform them what the USA will do. If Pakistan won't support a reasonable effort by the USA to get him, then a reasonable inference is that they support Osama, in which case appeasing them is irrelevant.
So, you're now officially of the "talk loudly and telegraph your punches" school of foreign affairs? Isn't that exactly what State Department didn't like about Bush & Rumsfeld? Tell me, after you're done talking loudly and Pakistan says "FU" in return, what do you do? Invade Waziristan and force the President of Pakistan to send divisions in response? So now you're at open war with an unstable nuclear-powered state full of Islamist terrorists? And your next move is what? |
