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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (108403)	7/15/2007 5:54:36 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, I don't think we should invade every country that's hostile to the US. In fact, I believe as a general rule we shouldn't invade anyone except in self defense. However, I don't think it's "crazy" to think we should get involved from time to time when the alternative to not getting involved is that someone that is hostile to the US keeps getting stronger and becomes a bigger threat. I think that's why we have often been involved in many places around the world when the communists were a threat. That's also why I don't think it was insane to invade Iraq despite the fact that it was obvious to me that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda. The problem was that he had the ability to make WMDs that could easily fall into the hands of Al Qaeda given that he was in the region, hostile to the U.S., and the country was a mess etc.... I don't know how to calculate what the risk of inaction was, but I think the result of the war has nothing to do with the risk of inaction. People need to understand risk better. If the risk of inaction means that there's a 95% chance you get a headache, that's very acceptable even though the probability is high. If the risk of inaction means that there's a 1% of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons getting into the hands of someone that could kill 100s of thousands of Americans, that 1% is not acceptable. That's why I was 50-50 in the beginning and am still not convinced this was a mistake despite how badly it has gone.