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Originally posted by Ustwo
You know I love liberals like Moore whining about things that happened 20 or 30 years ago. Hindsight is 20-20. When Saddam came to power, the Arab states all said he would be reasonable and we should work with him etc. We were still in the cold war (remember that) and the thought of dealing with nuclear annihilation was on a lot of minds. When Saddams true nature became known the US stopped dealing with him, and then solved the problem once and for all. We have the moral high ground here, not the socialists in Europe who were happy to do business with him like France and Germany, LONG after he was a proven mass murderer.
This is an amazing non-issue.
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No offense intended, but that's total crap. We did not have the moral high ground. We stuck our nose somewhere it didn't belong and we got burned for it, just like we did in Korea, Viet-Nam, Afghanistan (remember, WE trained bin Laden and funded him so he would fight the soviets. Oops.), Panama (CIA agent Noriega didn't work out real well for us did he?), Somalia, Mogadishu, Bosnia, Chile. . the list goes on. We as a nation have tricked ourselves into thinking we are the pinnacle of all that is good and holy, and we must force our ways on all who do not comply.
I for one am ready for a more isolationist policy. We were never elected to be the world's sheriff, and we should not be pretending to be a cop when we are not.