Saddam to Swing

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Now that is some impressive irony right there.

No irony. You've given a remarkably incorrect response.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

No irony. You've given a remarkably incorrect response.

None at all? I find at least a little, especially when the usual line I hear from many is that "violence/war is what got us into this mess" when, in this cluster of the past thirty some odd years, it was "making friends".

I can't wait to find out who we'll be friends with next in the Middle East. What friendly dictator/rebel/revolutionary/resistance do you think we're going to give money/weapons/training to this year?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

None at all?

"Some says yes, and some says absolutely." -- Walt Kelly

I can't wait to find out who we'll be friends with next in the Middle East. What friendly dictator/rebel/revolutionary/resistance do you think we're going to give money/weapons/training to this year?

And in place of this (pretty much the standard for international diplomacy for the past five centuries or so) you'd do... what?

That's the problem with the people who take this approach to What To Do About It All -- damned seldom do workable alternatives emerge from these people's minds.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

And in place of this (pretty much the standard for international diplomacy for the past five centuries or so) you'd do... what?

In Iraq? Absolutely nothing. It wasn't any of our business. Regardless of whichever of the myriad of reasons you happen to subscribe to for our "need" to invade Iraq, application of any of them as "standard international diplomacy" is about as intelligent as the current desire of The United States to fight an ideology as an army. Applying it in one instance is going to have negative repercussions for decades to come. Applying it everywhere would be suicide.

I almost said we're the ones that started this mess decades ago, but the situation we've entangled ourselves in and cannot remove ourselves from until we build a stable country, essentially from the ground up, was absolutely avoidable.

Again, I'd love to know who you think we're going to "make friends with" in the Middle East next and how you think we should do it. I tend to think we could have made fewer enemies by leaving Iraq alone.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I tend to think we could have made fewer enemies by leaving Iraq alone.

Sure, but how can you make money that way? war is good business.