On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:56:08 +0000, Del Rawlins wrote:

What I meant to say, is that I don't find it particularly credible for
Germany to be critical of another nation's decision to go to war.

I think it was Daniel Schorr who suggested not to overly criticize
Germany's current pacifism ...history has shown when they run into the
other direction they are hard to stop. Not a direct response to your
comment but I usually don't find much to say about moral lectures.


The whole point of this argument is that there *were* no other means
available to resolve the conflict in Iraq. Nothing short of force would
ever have brought Saddam down or motivated him to full disclosure on the
disposition of the WMD. The suggestion that the situation could have
been repaired otherwise is as ludicrous as the idea of negotiating for
peace with Hitler would have been in 1944.

This is an opinion. You can only assume what would have happened without
the war. BTW, this is called logic. Works without trying to find parallels
in history.

The other open (and never to be answered) question is whether it was
necessary to rid of Saddam in order to improve the security of the
American people (which was the only valid reason to justify the war,
before the nation and before the UN).

- Holger