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

To: DavesM who wrote (259286)	5/29/2002 1:00:14 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769667

I agree, to an extent. Nukes are useless except as terrorist weapons. Our moral authority is what is more convincing to the victims of warlords, the suiciders, now that we are the superpower that can toast the planet a nice golden brown -- if we make it clear we don't support one warlord against another. Our military force must clearly be for self-defense, if that slows the demagogues in their raising cadres of misbegotten. I agree, planetary WMD housekeeping with will be necessary for the next several decades, until we learn technical WMD defense in a "reverse Manhattan Project", so we'd better learn to do it right, with our neighbors and with full disclosure. For some reason, cynicism reigns, and I think it's due to all of the issues cited, the oil interrests, war business, secrecy and apparent deception, all of which robs our efforts of their moral authority, and leaves us with only military options. That leaves us with an unacceptable "forever war", that the administration already accepts. That's not diplomacy exactly, that's moral leadership, which as a superpower is easy to forget, but which is more powerful than weapons.