----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hunter" <matthew at infodancer.org> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Re: Defender always wins? (Was: Re: on contradictions and s > 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). > Do exactly - what? Develop nuclear weapons? How does that make them any more of a threat than, say, the United States? What has North Korea done by the way of invading sovereign nations, human rights violations, etc., that the U.S. hasn't? If I were a developing nation in a troubled region, I would certainly want some nuclear power, if only to protect me from what the big guns like the U.S. and its various cronies might do to me.