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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (44866)	2/26/2002 5:54:46 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It is taken for granted, then, that there will be a war of some sort? That's my clear impression. Everyone on TV seems to assume it. would you say that it is an indication that the War on Terrorism is being expanded to become a War on People We Don't Like? I don't know. In the early days of the war, the Administration made considerable effort to clarify the scope, which eventually solidified as terrorists with global reach. I do not see the same level of effort to clarify the update. It would seem that the vagueness was intentional, which may or may not be a good idea strategically but is frustrating for a lot of the talking heads and for people like me who want to understand what their country is up to. There was some speculation right after the State of the Union, for example, that Korea was only mentioned so that there would be a non-Muslim country on the list. If so, it may have backfired in view of the Asia trip. Given the lack of clarity, I think your War on People We Don't Like is one of several plausible interpretations. It was certainly one that occurred to me at the time. Subsequently, the message has been stressing the sale of weapons of mass destruction so perhaps WPWDL is less likely than it originally appeared. Still vague. That's my best sense of things. Karen

To: Dayuhan who wrote (44866)	2/26/2002 7:51:56 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

Here's a interesting angle on the war with Iraq, which has gotten some play. washingtonpost.com Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality Military Not Primed For New War Soon By Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, February 24, 2002; Page A01 At Boeing Co.'s high-tech factory in St. Charles, Mo., three shifts are working 24 hours a day turning out smart bombs to replenish Air Force and Navy inventories that ran dangerously low during the Afghan war. Pentagon planners say it will take six months to produce enough Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), the precision systems that guided 1,000-pound bombs to Taliban and al Qaeda targets, to contemplate an attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. <snip>