Dear Starchild;
Eh? I did say changes do need to occur but they should not be by Bush and his neo-cons trying to install their vierpoints of what has to be done. Especially since it appears not very many Iraqi Abdul or Aliyah Does have been asked what they would like to see done. It is their country and they are the ones who have to live in it and they should have a voice of some kind in what happens next.
As the old saying goes, now that you've made your bed - go lie in it. In this case King Bush The II will not have to lie in it the people of Iraq will.
On neutrality - Denmark did it in WW II so they wouldn't be totally crushed by the Wermacht. They also ended up with an underground resistance movement and got the majority of their Jews out of Denmark before it was too late. Sometimes neutrality buys you the time you need to figure out how you're going to try survive. Because when you survive you live to fight another day - at your choice of place and time.
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
P.S. Has anyone else noticed the seemingly long delay between a posting to the lpsf group site and having it show up on your e-mail server? I have noticed delays going from 3 - 5 hours after posting. And I have a yahoo e-mail address so the lpsf yahoo to my yahoo e-mail yahoo shouldn't be taking like billions and billions of hours.
Ron,
I'm not suggesting there are no shades of gray regarding a choice
between Islam or American-style democracy. And I realize it's sometimes
easier to not take sides. But as Eli Wiesel said, neutrality helps the
oppressor, never the oppressed. (Just substitute "non-intervention" for
"neutrality.")
Yours in liberty,
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