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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (2350)	1/17/2003 11:21:02 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15987

None of us relishes war. I am not so sure if that is true for some people on SI. There are some who just don't seem to care... Did you notice how the only photos/films from the war zone in Afghanistan were those taken from high altitudes? I believe the absence of visual proof that civilians died by thousands in Afghanistan goes a long way to convince the American public opinion that it is OK to do pretty much the same in Iraq. I supported Desert Storm Actually, so did I. I understand a distaste for a preemptive strike. I understand worry about the consequences Yes. The consequences here are not only the lives that will be lost. I believe the most disastrous long-term outcome of the US administration's sympathy and some others' tolerance towards the "preemptive strike" discourse will be other countries taking up the same line in justifying their own unprovoked attacks. Up until now, the only just war was in defense, when your country and people were in some way attacked. Now, thanks to Bush, there is something called "preemptive war", where one country can cook up a theory about how the other could, one day, attack it, and so strike. I have found that you are not so closed off when the conversation is not polarized, and that your underlying position is often more reasonable than some would have assumed...... I am happy to hear that. Looking forward to another one of those long exchanges...