[CLUE-Talk] a new note in the usa/iraq tune

[Randy Arabie]

Quoting Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>:

> 
> I feel that the short-term gains of the war are small compared to the 
> long-term hatred we've just fostered for ourselves, worldwide.  We've 
> not only sent our troops into harm's way, but all Americans traveling 
> abroad are now in a measurably more dangerous position than we were a 
> decade ago.  And we've made it our position that the U.N. are nothing 
> but a farce to us -- thus alienating ourselves from that organization 
> by a small measure we didn't need.  All things considered the war 
> didn't make things better, it made them worse.  For a feeling of 
> short-term relief that "something was done" about 9/11.
> 
> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

WMD Breakthrough
Post-Iraq, the world's proliferators are on the run.

Friday, February 6, 2004 12:01 a.m.

 http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004651

<quote>
All of this anti-WMD progress contrasts dramatically with what took place 
during the late 1990s, when the U.S. was supposedly just as worried about 
nuclear proliferation. We now know that those were the years when Mr. Khan 
spread his nuclear wares, when Gadhafi gathered his centrifuges, when Iraq 
kicked out U.N. inspectors and Iran deceived the world, and when North Korea 
was preparing to enrich uranium even while it negotiated new "disarmament" 
deals with the Clinton Administration. One obvious conclusion is that none of 
these proliferators believed the U.S. or U.N. were serious about confronting 
them. And at the time they were right.
All of that changed with the Bush policy of challenging terrorists and the 
states that support them after 9/11. With the fall of the Taliban and Saddam, 
the world's dictators have learned that protecting terrorists or pursuing WMD 
can interfere with lifetime tenure. So they are deciding to turn state's 
evidence, against themselves and others. Or to put it in terms even Washington 
may understand: The Bush strategy is working. 
</quote>

-- 
Allons Rouler!

Randy
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