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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ajax99 who wrote (8167)	2/14/2003 1:10:23 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Because it shows America's lack of integrity in the world[.] Well, that's one (ridiculously simplistic) way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is to - in the upholding of the above viewpoint - consider any policy that would hold the standing of a particular nation fixed and inflexible as laughably unrealistic (at best) or dangerous and ignorant (at worst). Still another viewpoint is to say that, at times, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and even ideological opponents can be wonderfully useful in a pinch. USA can support Iraq in a war in which it used chemical weapons against Iran that lasted over 7 years... Yes, we did. ...but now USA must bomb Iraq and innocent civilians because Iraq had a few expired empty shell casings! That's true, but you're unsurprisingly leaving out the volume of other evidence against Iraq. (Accidentally, I'm sure.) Should we not be friendly with German and Japan because we fought bloody wars with them earlier this century? Or Spain (ad infinitum)? LPS5