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

To: LindyBill who wrote (3122)	2/1/2003 12:28:32 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I think we are living in a fool's paradise on this issue. We tend to think in terms to which we are accustomed, and we suppress disturbing notions. International relations are generally seen the way people came to see them during the pre-Nuclear era. So, many say, “What right do we have to tell an independent country, like Iraq, that they have no right to arm themselves?” My question is, What right does Iraq have to be a threat to the USA? To have a huge intelligence network, potentially capable of bringing nukes into our country? And, on top of that, to have a megalomaniacal murderer as their self-appointed dictator, in absolute control of it all? Hasn’t the world changed since nukes started to proliferate? Can we still afford preserving religiously the “internal affairs” of others, while unreconstructed extremists, out of the 7th century, are brandishing nukes, threatening to destroy us? Are these questions relevant? If yes, why do so many people have such an easy time ignoring or avoiding them?