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: michael97123 who wrote (110385)	8/7/2003 4:48:02 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

I'm not needling chuck. Chuck wrote: "so far he is doing a repeat of his fathers indifference to the American worker." Chuck was pointing out that there is a real problem for Bush in the near future. I added to that problem. I was looking for possible scenarios given the conditions at hand. This really has nothing to do with being right, left or center. It's a question of describing what might happen in the near future. Since Bush will not raise taxes to help counter both the deficit and the increasing consumer debt, I see bad economic times in the near future. I don't think that Bush will bring the UN on board in any significant way soon and until he does then very few countries will contribute to alleviate the enormous costs of maintaining armed forces in Iraq now being paid by the US. Therefore my conclusion that war may be the only real counter move. Note I said "may be" not "is". If there are other solutions to Bush's dilemma then let's see them and talk about them. On second thought Bush could declare the guerrilla war over and leave. I doubt that will happen. In the end Iraq may end up as another fundamentalist Islamic state some years after the US leaves. With all the hate that will generate. Iran is an example one should not repeat. I wouldn't use the term perfidious about Bush, I would use that term about Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Wolfowitz.