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 : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (3956)	2/24/2004 10:58:22 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Bush Foreign policy; what is wrong with it? In Iraq, it's time for some smarts 2/24/2004 By FAREED ZAKARIA As the war in Iraq was coming to a close, many people - from Tony Blair to Joseph Biden (and even this writer) - urged Washington to give the United Nations a central role in postwar politics. This had been a well-worked formula for at least a decade: in Kosovo, East Timor and most recently in Afghanistan, where it produced a legitimate government and a constitutional process with remarkably little conflict. But the Bush administration was adamantly opposed - even though sidelining the U.N. would mean fewer troops and less money from other countries. "We fought the war," administration officials explained to me at the time, "and besides, the U.N. is not competent to handle a complex undertaking like Iraq." Six months later, with Washington facing a political train wreck in Iraq, whom did it call? The United Nations. ..read on at buffalonews.com

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (3956)	2/24/2004 11:14:52 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

And either in Marin or Orange county or La Jolla, I guess