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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (28496)	9/22/2003 3:54:16 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

Thomas Friedman, of the Times, wrote breezily, "The 'real reason' for this war, which was never stated, was that after 9/11 America needed to hit someone in the Arab-Muslim world." Well, now Bush has as much as stated it. Friedman went on, "Smashing Saudi Arabia or Syria would have been fine. But we hit Saddam for one simple reason: because we could, and because he deserved it, and because he was right in the heart of that world." I've seen Friedman give this "Teach'um a lesson" speech many times. It just makes no sense. How do you teach someone a lesson by jumping into a trap? OBL wanted to provoke a "War of Civilizations" because his side (fundamental Islam) was loosing to modernity. So we should hand him a victory? We should put US troops in his backyard for target practice? This teaches him a lesson? When someone tries to provoke you, it's a good idea to first divine the motivation behind the provocation. To blindly react, and do something because we can, isn't likely to be a winning strategy. JMO lurqer