[lit-ideas] Re: How the Spartans got their hoplites back
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:32:45 -0800
From: "John Wager" <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Perhaps he was crazy enough to believe that any American president would
see that Hussein was actually a stabilizing element in the region, that it
would take an iron hand to keep the Kurds, the Shia and the Sunnis from
each others' throats, that the U.S.'s national interest was in having an
uninterrupted flow of oil, that any war to remove him would cost the U.S.
more than it would gain the U.S., and that no sane American president
would get into a situation where the U.S. put its military between three
opposing forces in a country that had a long history of hostility to
occupation?
Naa, he couldn't have been THAT crazy.
And there's also the matter of the US ambassador signing off on the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait.
If the USA gave him a green light, why should he be afraid of the USA?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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