[Rhodes22-list]Politics: Muhammed, Prophet of Doom

[brad haslett]

Wally, 

We agree on this, there is plenty to be nervious
about.  I disagree with you about sanctions working. 
They were working for the French, Germans, Russians,
and Chinese, but especially the French.  The
oil-for-food program was working quite well for
Saddam, he continued to build palaces and buy arms. It
didn't stop him from continuing to support terrorists
by paying money to families of Palistiniens who killed
Jews.  The Duelfer report clearly shows Saddam hadn't
given up on WMD, he was just waiting for sanctions to
end.  Saddam's nuclear bomb builder said in the  NY
Times they could re-start the nuclear program in "the
snap of a finger".  WMD is a political problem for
Bush because that's how he sold the war, it doesn't
mean the war wasn't justified.

This business that everyone talks about of not
concentrating on Bin Laden is Bullshit!  Let me put
that in more family friendly terms, unadulterated pure
Bullshit!  Bin Laden most likely was at Bora Bora. 
The Afghans kicked the Soviets ass there.  They had
the terrain, the tunnels, the escape routes, and the
experience. We threw thousands of air sorties against
them.  More boots on the ground would have meant more
dead American soldiers, not a more effective force.
Some of the local militia leaders turned out to be not
trustworthy.  But, to think that we could have thrown
more 20 year-olds at the situation and made a
difference is military foolishness.  It ignores
history, terrain, and reality.  We'll get Bin Laden
but that won't be the end of the problem.  This fight
will last for years.

Unless of course you believe that terriorism is just a
nuisance, there is no quick solution.

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"
--- Wally Buck <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> >Anyone that can look at the world situation & not
> be really really nervous
> >just doesn't grasp the significance of what's going
> & how quickly the
> >situation could deteriorate.
> 
> 
> I agree. The whole thing make me very nervous. I can
> see the current 
> situation escalating and dragging on for years. This
> is one of the reasons I 
> felt we should have waited a little longer to work
> through the problems in 
> Iraq. As we learn more after the fall of Saddam it
> appears there were no 
> WMD. It also appears that sanctions were working. We
> should have kept after 
> Bin Laden. It seems fairly obvious that we made some
> serious blunders in 
> this war.
> 
> Wally
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Wally
> 
>
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