Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:33:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>> There's a difference between fighting a war because the planet is in
>> immediate danger and complicating a civil war or other largely
>> internal conflict. We did the former in both world wars. We've done
>> the latter in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. We started off good in
>> Afghanistan before we started hiring warlords again, setting us up
>> for the next American-funded terrorist to attack America.
>>
> Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent. We waited for
> the problem to get to us. Personally, I am glad that Saddam was taken
> out before he could do something foolish and plunge the whole Middle
> East (and subsequently the *planet*) into war.
>
Actually, our invasion of Iraq is much more likely to lead to a
broader war in the Mideast than Saddam was.
-Chris
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Christopher Judd, Ph. D. judd@wadsworth.org |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply to: