On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:38:00 -0600, you wrote: >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). North Korea has announced they have nuclear weapons every year for four years now. Why it's breaking news every time they do it is beyond me.