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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (6061)	11/20/2003 6:24:13 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

The analysis is not always as simple as "Either you are with us or against us". There is always something inbetween which we call politics. And that is what Bush does not understand thereby isolating the US in the world. Of course it isn't. It never is for people who have high ideals but lack the nerve to actually fight for them.. 17 UNSC resolutions.. all related to enforcing a cease fire and disarmament agreement from a war that Saddam Hussein initiated. All 17 resolutions were defied deliberately, and with contempt for their obligation to adher to them, which means that Iraq was in violation of the cease fire agreement. Being in violation of a cease fire then provides the offended party the ability to weigh its options and level of response (the tightening of sanctions). The UN/US response was formulated over the course of 12 years, nor was the military option haphazard or spur of the moment, as Bush spend several months obtaining authorization to use force, as well as trying to build a coalition of cowardly lions in Europe.. Countries that could talk big at the UN, but were utterly impotent when it came to back up their words with action.. And all during this time innocent people, subjugated by the Sunni Baathists and Saddam, were suffering and dying... All because the UN refused to enforce its binding resolutions, and permitted itself to laughed at by Saddam Hussein. Hawk