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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: RealMuLan who wrote (630)3/20/2003 4:41:31 PM
From: LPS5  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
Yeah, maybe the US will also find out.

I deeply appreciate your concern for our welfare. Thank you.

In fact, we did "find out," on September 11th, 2001. Specifically, Americans learned that "playing with fire" comes not only in the form of action, but inaction. The reaction, of course, was to flip over the Taliban and pursue al Qaeda, a mission that has seen great success but is still underway.

The current action in Iraq is a preemptive approach to mitigating the same risks. To me, it's not about "eliminating terrorism." That's a foolhardy notion. Instead, the focus is, as it should be, to set a tone for rogue states and organizations.

What else have you got, Yiwu Zhang?

LPS5



To: RealMuLan who wrote (630)3/20/2003 7:14:21 PM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
<< Yeah, maybe the US will also find out. >>

The US has already found out. We are reminded of how costly freedom and democracy is, every time we look at the American burial ground at Normandy.

We are also reminded of how many cowardly, or morally corrupt nations there are in the world when it is always up to America, and a few friends, to free the Kosovars, or the Afghanistans, or the Kuwaitis, etc.