Debate on Iraq war policy, page 1
privacy
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 0 times
ATS Members have flagged this thread 0 times
Topic started on 6-9-2003 @ 02:55 PM by ktprktpr
Covers what will happen next in Iraq. Takes a political look too. Mainly if the current policy will work or not.
"The United States will have to moderate its dreams of a fully democratic Iraq standing athwart its autocratic neighbors or of a pliant Iraq through which the United States can manipulate OPEC and intimidate its neighbors. What the U.S. should settle for is a country that doesn't threaten its neighbors with war and whose government is not based on the threat of armed force against its religious and ethnic minorities. Beyond that, it'll be up to the Iraqis, and perhaps not to those the Iraqis the Pentagon has courted. One might ask: If this was all that an invasion was going to accomplish, was it really worth the billions of dollars, the thousands of lives (Iraqi as well as American and British), and the fracturing of an international system rooted in collective security and international law? That is a question, unfortunately, that the geniuses in the Bush administration should have been asking last March. "
www.tnr.com...
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by ktprktpr]
"The United States will have to moderate its dreams of a fully democratic Iraq standing athwart its autocratic neighbors or of a pliant Iraq through which the United States can manipulate OPEC and intimidate its neighbors. What the U.S. should settle for is a country that doesn't threaten its neighbors with war and whose government is not based on the threat of armed force against its religious and ethnic minorities. Beyond that, it'll be up to the Iraqis, and perhaps not to those the Iraqis the Pentagon has courted. One might ask: If this was all that an invasion was going to accomplish, was it really worth the billions of dollars, the thousands of lives (Iraqi as well as American and British), and the fracturing of an international system rooted in collective security and international law? That is a question, unfortunately, that the geniuses in the Bush administration should have been asking last March. "
www.tnr.com...
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by ktprktpr]
Pages: ^^TOP^^
The "Terrorism" Hot Spot map. You would think they were crawling out of the woodwork everywhere...
Posted 11 days ago with 16 member flags
Posted 11 days ago with 16 member flags
Keep Your Eyes on Sudan!!! We Have Boots on the Ground. Jihad Threat!
Posted 17 days ago with 11 member flags
Posted 17 days ago with 11 member flags
Its Official, war on Terror is Being Privatized - Outsourcing to mercenaries
Posted 0 days ago with 8 member flags
Posted 0 days ago with 8 member flags
Insurgency in America? Former Border Agent Details Threats Spilling Into the U.S.
Posted 5 days ago with 7 member flags
Posted 5 days ago with 7 member flags
Department of Homeland Security declares anyone who disagrees with them a Terrorist!
Posted 4 days ago with 7 member flags
Posted 4 days ago with 7 member flags
The Above Top Secret Web sites are a
wholly owned social content community of
The Above Network, LLC.
This content community relies on
user-generated content from our member contributors.
The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership
who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides
a collaborative venue for free expression.
ATS Server: www3.theabovenetwork.com
Header data: 0.010 seconds
Page processed in: 0.107 seconds
wholly owned social content community of
The Above Network, LLC.
This content community relies on
user-generated content from our member contributors.
The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership
who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides
a collaborative venue for free expression.
ATS Server: www3.theabovenetwork.com
Header data: 0.010 seconds
Page processed in: 0.107 seconds
