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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (90670)	4/6/2003 4:45:05 PM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 281500

That American foreign policy is stupid and/or evil is practically beyond debate here, (and I don't think a successful war will change that), and that assumption leaves any intelligent debate on the war dead before it begins Well... I think that an intelligent argument would be that if this planet will allow wide dissemination of unconventional weaponry, it is merely a matter of time when it will become dead and uninhabitable. It is a CERTAINTY that sooner or later some crazy dictator or some major terrorist will blow things up. The usual objection is, "There is nothing new about WMD's. If they are so important, how come nothing was done about it for so many years?" I would like to answer this question with a question: "How come so many otherwise intelligent people STILL - even now - refuse to understand just how dangerous WMD's really are?..."