----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:27 AM Subject: Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz
> At 10:21 PM 12/11/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: > >The resources we've squandered would have gone a long way > >towards actually solving the problem of terrorism which, I reiterate, has > >little or nothing to do with Iraq or Sadam Hussein. > > Even so, once Saddam Hussein were to, say, acquire a nuclear weapon from > the A. Q. Khan underground network, isn't it a little too late at that > point to do something about the problem? Sure, and Hussein having now having almost no likelihood of being able to do that again is a plus. But, we also have to consider the price that is paid for that. If we determined we had to do something about Iran, we would go virtually alone. Even if we had tremendous justification, Blair couldn't last long enough to support us again. The shifting of world public opinion against the US will have an impact on the policies of a number of countries....particularly those with representative governments. I'll give just one example...how many countries would now ally with the US in stopping the genocide in the Sudan? Finally, since we have some significant evidence that nominal allies, like France, are actively engaged in attacking the interests of the US as it is, it is not inconceivable that the lists of nations that do this will expand as popular anti-American sentiment grows. The Balkans were different because we were clearly acting in the immediate self-interest of the nations and people of Europe...even thought it might have been impolitic to admit it. The failure in Iraq is in no-one's interests, so anti-Americanism grows after it. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
