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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (12367)2/22/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Czechsinthemail  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
Dwight,

Although I realize that hypocrisy tends to be a language most politicians speak with native fluency, there is an abundant amount that conversations with Arabs will quickly reveal in our quick readiness to bomb Iraq for a failure to comply with U.N. resolutions while looking the other way around Israel's many failures to comply with U.N. resolutions. That discrepancy contributes to a substantial amount of anti-American feeling in the region.

The problem with embargoes, bombing runs and ground invasions is that the victims are not the leaders, like Saddam, who create enormous suffering for their own people and their neighbors, nor their brethren who dream up these schemes to control or get rid of the "bad" leaders. It's all done with mirrors.

It's time the USA started showing the world that we mean business when we say that we don't want tin-horn despots who use chemical weapons against their own people.

The problem with using violence as a tool of public policy is that it is an attitude that doesn't know boundaries. I think what you mean is "we don't want any other tin horn despots who use chemical weapons against their own people." Have you ever heard of mace or pepper spray? As Pogo once said, "We have found the enemy, and they are us."

Baird
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