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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j g cordes who wrote (17784)	2/21/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Gee, Jim, whatever happened to the "left-wing" working press? I sort of miss them!!! Certainly this Clinton thing would be buried next to the classified ads if they were still "in charge"! Is there much news on Clinton the last couple of days, anyway? It looks like Iraq has our attention at the moment, deservedly so. From what I have been reading, most Americans want a clearer explanation of what we are planning to do there, how we will know when it is finished, and whether this is going to be an ongoing process rather than one surgical strike. And it seems like there are a lot of Americans who think it is futile to just bomb Iraq, which will hurt mostly the Iraqi people, without assassinating Saddam. I have even talked to a lot of "liberals" who feel this way. One of the speakers on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer pointed out that Israel is also in violation of U.N. sanctions, and that since land mines kill many more people every year than weapons of mass destruction, if our real concern is human life, we should sign the land mines treaty. In othere words, that there is a lot of hypocrisy in our public stance. It also seems a little strange to many people that the Arab nations around Iraq are not very willing to help this time. It doesn't really make sense that the U.S. and Britain are going to attack without a lot of support. One of the networks reported last night that instead of fighting back this time, Saddam is seemingly acting like a martyr instead. He has pushed his planes off the runways, into the sands, and hidden away everything of military value that he can, and is just hunkering down for what may be passive resistance. The military might of the United States attacking a country which does not even mount a response doesn't do a lot for our image abroad, does it? What do you think about this quagmire?