From: matus (matus@snet.net)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 22:35:33 MDT
Damien Sullivan:
> France, Russia, Germany. Say they're glad Hussein's out of
> power, but that's
> not the point. "80 percent of all countries fall short of
> Western democratic
> standards, do we go to war with all of them?"
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=586&e=2&cid=586&u
> =/nm/20030411/wl_nm/iraq_opponents_dc
>
> -xx- Damien X-)
>
No, that is a fallacy of extremes and its rediculous when intelligent people
invoke it. Its like saying 'why do something about that mugger, when
thousands get away with it' Instead of going after each and every country
that falls short of western democratic standards, perhaps a more noble goal
of the *worst* 1% is more reasonable. With that, many will follow.
Putin, in that article, also said
"Putin said Moscow had always known that Saddam's Iraq "does not correspond
to democracy and human rights...but you cannot solve such problems with
military means." "
Cant solve it with military means eh? Well, the Russians all ready tried
their strategy, that of selling weapons and goods to said murderous
dictator. That didnt seem to work to well. Were they just *hoping* he
would go away then?
Michael Dickey
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Apr 11 2003 - 22:30:20 MDT