On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:48:09PM -0700, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > President George Bush (The Dad) understood things better. Bogeymen are > useful. When there's an obvious bogeyman close at home, it's hard to > target the U.S. as the #1 enemy. Sure there were humanitarian reasons > for overthrowing Saddam, but with that bogeyman gone, the Muslim world > found another one. The U.S. The Muslim world was more than a little peeved at us before we knocked Saddam's tinpot dictatorship over. > North Korea is sad - but it is useful for our policies. North Korea has just announced that they have nuclear weapons. In my opinion, they are not useful; they are a threat. If we leave tinpot dictatorships alone long enough, they will do exactly this. If we leave Iran alone long enough, they will do this. (Listen closely to the negotiations with "old Europe" on the Iran front; note how Iran is playing for time; note how "containment" is likely to result in a Muslim nuclear power). -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/weblog/index.jsp