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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (238786)	3/16/2002 10:53:46 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

> I think much of our posturing about evil and nuclear weaponry is meant to get the rest of the world's attention and their interest and cooperation in getting rid of terrorism. excuse me, I think we've gone WAY beyond posturing...WAY

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (238786)	3/16/2002 11:10:32 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

The US has the most powerful conventional force in the world, and remains a superpower precisely because it doesn't use nukes. If we capriciously used nukes, we would instantly lose superpower status, and be subject to losing our status worldwide, via trade, culturally and geopolitically. Military failure would soon follow, and many times more terrorists, spies and enemies would appear on our soil, since we would likely be declared an enemy of the rest of the world. Respect we would not have, except a temporary military respect. The only way to make sure other countries' problems are not our problems is to stay militarily uninvolved except through UN auspices, offer only geopolitical help as an honest broker, and allow the powerful American culture and business to eventually dissolve violently disfunctional regimes, which it inevitably does. Instead, our military and intel services are making the mistake of clumsy use of secrecy and techniques from the old days, easy to corrupt, impossible to control, and out of reach of the American people. And, the cause of blowback and billions of wasted dollars. The American people would never approve the sending of billions in petrodollars to Saudi Arabia or foreign aid to Egypt, or maybe not even Israel, if they had a choice. But the secret nature of foreign and military policies end-runs the American electorate. In spite of that, the Muslim community (if it can have a collective term, which may not be the case) must learn to be innoculated against control, and toward a peaceful and humanitarian culture, instead of violent scapegoating.