From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 22:01:05 MST
Mitch writes
> Let us cut to the chase, if we may, and re-direct the emphasis of this thread. I say the war will occur soon any way, no matter
what the protestors say or do. I am in the pro-war camp, myself, though I cry my crocodile tears, I see no other way out of this.
Big freakin' deal right? Fair enough. Now what will those anti-War camp do now?
*Violent protests?
*A reign of molotov cocktails ?
*Sit-ins ?
*Laying on tracks carrying military equipment ?
*A stern letter to the Times ?
*Death threats, pipe bombs ?
*Denial of service email attacks ?
*taking up arms against the American Imperialists ?
*Making common cause with the Iraqis, the Iranians,
the North Koreans?
I am curious about this. How can you compel the US to obey
your will? What about breaking diplomatic relations, economic
warfare of some sort?
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Hal posted about "stealth democracy" and the researchers
he quoted had me pegged pretty well: I wouldn't make (myself)
a great study of policy issues confronting my country, but
rather trust people whose ideology is close to mine, and
who are presumably paid professionals.
But my *attitude* towards, say, France or Germany invading
Bosnia would have been "What affair is it of my country?
That's in Europe." To be honest, I felt the same way about
Russia and Chechnya. So one other item to put on the table
is, "Perhaps other nations should mind their own business.
What happens in Iraq doesn't *directly* concern them.*
Now I must quickly say that of course, talk is cheap and
everyone (including other countries, of course) is quite
entitled to their opinion. But from the way some sound,
it's as if they regard the upcoming invasion as taking
place on their own soil!
As for "today, yes, it's Iraq, but tomorrow it may be Iceland",
that is so silly it hardly deserves comment. I can just see
ten years of pressure from dozens and dozens of countries,
innumerable U.N. resolutions, thousands of flights over
Iceland to figure out just what those scoundrels are up to,
etc., etc. ;-)
Lee
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