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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (293737)	9/6/2002 2:49:24 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am generally inclined to see the United States intervene in support of democracy, but I consider the occassional support of authoritarian regimes reasonable when the alternative would very likely be chaos or the installation of even less tolerant regimes. I would say how far apart we might be hinges on the "but". Having tracked down various historical claims, both Left and Right, outside of the mainstream, and later seen their refutations, I am aware that unless one has mastered the particulars, it is hard to amass data, and even then, an endless round of haggling over sources can make it impossible to resolve anything within this limited forum. I have had interminable arguments over the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the legality of the income tax; the right of the federal government to issue paper money; whether FDR set up the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor; whether the Southern states had a right to secede; and on and on. Even in instances where I would have considered the material I had gotten conclusive, that has not stopped the die- hards from arguing. I have read pretty much everything Vonnegut wrote through "Jailbird"......