[lit-ideas] Re: The beginning of the end in Iraq
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:43:26 -0400
My tea leaves tell me North Korea probably won't nuke anyone directly
because they're probably not suicidal. They might sell the technology to
terrorists. But, terrorists will get the technology from Pakistan, who
sponsored A.Q. Khan, who sells nuclear secrets to anyone (source: Ron
Suskind). That's where there's reason to think that Iran would be much
more circumspect with its nuclear capability. They didn't give it to
Hamas, did they?
It would make so much more sense if the U.S. went to North Korea and patted
them on the back and said, congratulations, good show, you're in the club
now, and get them on our side. Likewise with Iran, work with them instead
of against them. Ratcheting up the hostilities is what got us where we are
and we'll get more of the same, and worse, that's all. I just saw an okay
feel good movie called Love Actually (not the German one with the same
name; this is with Hugh Grant, set in England, 2003). What I liked about
it is that there was complete equality between the black and white races.
They even marry with impunity. It left me with a really peaceful feeling,
as if it's the most natural thing in the world. My point is that first we
do the prophecy, in this case of peace, and make the overtures, and the
fulfillment of it will follow. We've prophecied exactly the opposite, and
exactly the opposite has followed. All this support for torture for
example. I keep bringing up the Suskind book, but he talks about how
tortured captives sent us running around in circles on bad information,
while the offer of a surgical operation for a captive's wife had him
singing like a bird. Everything is so upside down and backwards, and we
just want more of it.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/28/2006 9:11:54 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The beginning of the end in Iraq
>
>
> Point is that we wouldn't nuke North Korea unless it nuked
> South Korea, and even then we would hesitate because of
> China's response. The only case where would unhesitatingly
> nuke North Korea is if it nuked us first. (I assume if North
> Korea nuked Britain, France, or Russia, those countries
> would also counterstrike.)
>
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