Dragaera

Defender always wins? (Was: Re: on contradictions and s

Fri Feb 11 02:01:14 PST 2005

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.