The UN Security Council is another non issue. If the US wants to go in, they will go in regardless of the UN, Nato, or whatever alphabet soup organization you want to bring up.
The US is simply iding its time, they finally got Turkey to agree, now they are waiting on all the pieces to be put into place. If we were so worried abotu not going in then we wouldn't have spent the moeny or made the promises we have made.
Typical political rhetoric. We appear to be looking for diplomatic means while all the time loading our forces into attack positions. What, you think we are just going to say, "OK you win, we have spent the last 6 onths deploying troops, calling up reservists, allying ourselves with border nations, we are satisfied" Not hardly.
Anyoe with half a brain that thinks we are not going in, better look for the other half. The logistica we have already gone through makes it a ofregone conclusion.
As for the economic issue. War generates economy, it is the preperation for war that is the negative. It is called war weariness, and is only exastant in the POSSIBILITY of war, when a war actualy occurs this stabilizes. Econimically anyways.
This also has nothing to do with liberating Iraq. It has very little to do with oil. It has everything to do with making a statement. The statement that you better think twice before screwing with the US.
Why do you think we were so safe when Reagan? was in office (for those old enough to remember) Because the whole world was scared because no one knew what that crazy old bastard might do. Fear through superior fire power. He made statements to the fact that he wasn't afraid to blow up things, or kill people, and people believed him when he said it. that is the big difference. No one believes anything we say anymore.
The world has fallen into this whole era of good feelings. Relative peace throughout the globe with only intranational battle raging. A time of econmic boom and world trade. Also a time when old allegiances have dissolved and new ones have arisen. And the US being dealt out of most of them.
But in this time the seedy underbelly has gained power, the dictators, and the terrorists. they have slipped thorugh the cracks by dealing in small time acts. Until 9-11 when they indeed committed an act of war on the US. While I don't agree with how it has been handled (with kid gloves) I am sure that once it is set in motion the chain of events will be monumental.
I also don't think what will be done will be extreme enough to make the world a "safe" place, it might deter all but the boldest of extremists from hashing similar plans. But that is what you get when you deal with extremeist. No matter what you do, short of complete anihalation, would be enough.
But it is coming. I would say within the next 2 weeks, you will wake up to the reports that we dropped about 2000 bomb overnight on key areas of Iraq. Then the usual netork propaganda, then a few more bombing raids, and the dramatic footage, then the invasion, and then the clean up. Then more than likely onto the next traget.
Without a doubt, depending on the severity of the Iraqi dismissal, I am sure the North Koreans will settle down some, if not, then I am sure they would be given similar attention.
I am no war *****r, but ultimately action is necessarry to deter future actions against.
Why are people afraid of terrorist? Because they do what they say. They don't make hollow threats. If stopping them means taking a page from their book of actions speaking louder than words, then sobeit. It beats having the power to do something about it, and doing nothing.
