[lit-ideas] Re: A political thought (continued)

On 2004/04/30, at 12:16, Omar Kusturica wrote:

> How about withdrawing instead ?


A good question. And an answer that Aron himself might be advocating, 
were he alive today.

But the moral question is how to manage a withdrawal that does not 
leave a worse situation than the won before the war started--from the 
point of view of the Iraqis left stuck with the mess we Americans and 
Brits, etc., have created.

The global realpolitik issues, oil and whether the Middle East can be 
left to sort itself out without becoming a perennial source of 
terrorists in a world where ugly, ugly weapons are all too easy to come 
by....

The continuing problem, to me, is whether any or all of the parties 
involved in this mess can get beyond the passionate simple-mindedness 
that motivates violence, whether delivered by Abrams tanks and Cobra 
gunships or by suicide bombers and hijackers who fly airplanes into 
buildings.

While deeply pessimistic, I remain committed to the notion that I, at 
least, must do what I can to understand and do my bit to work for a 
saner, if only marginally saner, world.


John L. McCreery
International Vice Chair, Democrats Abroad

Tel 81-45-314-9324
Email mccreery@xxxxxxx

 >>Life isn't fair. Democracy should be. <<

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