Re: Is she toast?

Charles Bishop wrote:
> 
> In article <4824f6aa$0$11192$6c5eefc5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> raven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Raven-Poe) wrote:


> >Not really, tho I know you've changed your views: you don't know how
much
> >worse Gore would have fvcked things up.
> >
> 
> Much as I agree with you on most things, I doubt that it would have been
> worse. While we can't know what didn't happen, we can guess. Mine is
that
> Gore would not have invaded Iraq.
>
Which means that the US sits with "no fly zones" in a stagnated
Middle East with Saddam poking and poking. That's how the US was
when Clinton left office.



> We don't know yet whether this is a good
> or bad idea, and won't for a long time, I expect. I'd vote for not
having
> done it though, since from here it looks to be a mistake for the US.
> 
Game out what else to do. There really were no other options in the
Middle East for the use of force. Only the use of force could
change the situation on the ground.



-- 
"Question, two men starving to death decide to eat their hair like
spaghetti. Is that funny?"
"Hmmm, well, it depends on if by funny you want to make people
laugh."
-+Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, "The Cat's Meow"