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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (35478)	7/31/2002 1:16:48 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

You are undecided. Well, not exactly. I'm for complicated thinking about foreign policy options as opposed to "moral clarity" thinking. It seems to me very easy to make matters much worse by not considering as many of the alternative explanations and consequences as possible. Nothing, to date, persuades me that these complications get solved by invading Syria, Iran, Iraq, et al.

To: LindyBill who wrote (35478)	7/31/2002 9:38:53 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

I don't think we have any choice but to go after them. Go after who? Everybody that doesn't like us? Doesn't it make sense to focus effort on the people who actually attacked us, and their supporters? It seems to me that a lot more attention is being paid to ideas like the war on Iraq than to the necessity of uprooting the Al Qaeda infrastructure in the West. I know that detective work and intelligence work are not as dramatic - or as politically attractive - as war, but in this case they will serve us much better. If we persist in treating the rest of the world as second class citizens simply because they can't match our military force, how much help are we going to get on the really important front, the one where military force won't help us - the effort to root out the offensive arm of Al Qaeda, which is already dispersed in friendly countries. This apparatus can continue to attack us without a bin Laden and without any state support. If our priority is going after the people who gave us 9/11, why are we focusing on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11? I'm about 100 posts behind and not likely to catch up; I have things to do today. Good luck all; I hope you've solved the problems by the time I get back....