From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 12:18:50 MDT
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:40:43AM -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
For the record, I'm glad Saddam's regime seems to be over. And I'll grant
there seems to have been low casualties, and a fair bit of sensitivity for the
locals. That doesn't mean starting the war in the way it was started, with
abundant deception, was a good thing. Unless you go in for "the ends justify
the means."
> The cost may have been quite high, but it could easily have been worse
> (how many won't realize that?). Of course, the interesting question is
For example, he could have used those WMDs which were the main justification
for starting the war and which we haven't seen any sign of yet...
> "what happens next". That will be the determining answer as to whether
Yeah. Hope we treat them better than Afghanistan.
-xx- Damien X-)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Apr 10 2003 - 12:27:54 MDT