Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: frankw1900 who wrote (78107)	2/27/2003 1:06:15 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Had they been pip squeaks left over after WW2 the US and UN probably would have dealt with them directly.> OK, let's be clear here. You're saying the reason we are going after Iraq now (and not Iran or Syria or N. Korea), is not so much because we should, but because we can. That is, they get knocked off first, because they are the weakest on the "axis of evil" list, not because they are the worst. And, in addition to rehabilitating McCarthy, we are also ressurecting the Domino Theory. All the other "bad guys" will fall or reform, quickly and easily, after we start the dominoes falling in Iraq. All the discredited Cold War ideas are getting recycled, with only the targets changed. <So, who else wants nukes? Some countries have given them up.> Brazil gave up its nuke program, because they decided they didn't need them. They decided their relations with other countries, was not going to be on the basis of force or the threat of force. They felt secure enough, that their competition and conflict with other nations would be economic and political, not military. If they were worried about getting invaded, or threatened by another country's nukes, then Brazil would be a nuclear power today. And if you want other regional (and smaller) powers not to develop WMD, then they have to get the same sense of security that Brazil has. <The Rumanian model is far more relevant to the Iraq situation than Vietnam as is the Cambodian model.> ????? In both Romania and Cambodia, the locals decided what government they would have, after the foreign armies withdrew. I don't see any analogy to Iraq.