At 09:03 PM 3/18/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>I don't think it should have been priority one. I think our top priority
>should have been coalition building and the creation of a cooperative
>network to root out and destroy terrorism.
You mean like cooperating with military dictatorships like Pakistan to
corner a major Al Qaeda leader?
You mean like cosying up to countries like Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Oman,
and the People's Republic of China for cooperation in the War Against Terror?
I just want to be clear here that you do, in fact, support these policies.
> I think if we had done this
>while continuing to isolate Hussain we would have been able to take him
>out on terms amenable to all of our allies,
That's an interesting opinion, since Hans Blix apparently disagrees with
you. He believes that countries like France and Russia and Germany and
(did I mention) France were primarily interested in getting back to doing
business with Saddam Hussein.
I am curious as to why you believe that Hans Blix's assessment of the
geopolitical situation was inaccurate? In particular, why do you believe
that France, who is currently cooperating with the People's Republic of
China to intimidate the only free voting in all of China would eventually
have become active supporters of and co-participants in a regime change in
Iraq that would have harmed both their personal (through since-disclosed
oil bribes paid to French and German officials) and their national business
interests? Note that there are two questions there.
JDG
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