Deprecated: Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated in /var/www/html/fr/freeliberal.com/textpattern/lib/constants.php on line 136
Free Liberal: Coordinating towards higher values

Free Liberal

Coordinating towards higher values

Kudos to Dr. Paul

Rep. Ron Paul is to be commended for his excellent speech to the House. As Iraq fades from the headlines, he asks the fundamental question: Was Iraq II justified in the first place? He answers with a resounding "No."

Saddam Hussein, like bloody dictators the world over, is out, so we -- I suppose -- can take some solace from that. And the Bush Administration and its supporters are noting that other dictatorships in the Middle East seem to be coming around. To be fairminded, that should be acknowledged. Hopefully something "good" is coming from Iraq II. Still, on the fundamentals, is it all poisoned fruit?

Few in the world took umbrage at the US's Taliban/al Qaeda suppression operation in Afghanistan. This free market peacenik is among them. Yet, we hear very little about the "hunt" for Osama. Indeed, Bush at one point said finding Osama is besides the point. How very curious. A man who apparently masterminded the death of 3,000+ Americans in America in a most heinous way is not our priority, but killing Iraqis (in a collateral damage fashion) is. The logic simply escapes me.

That there is in some quarters something very unfortunately called Islamofascism seems to be real. Just as with the Cold War, however, has a hot war against its exponents passed the clear and present danger test? In both cases, from where I sit, the answer is "No," except, perhaps, in the case of Afghanistan.

The message should be, "If you attack us, we will respond and neutralize you." The message should not be: "If we think that maybe, just maybe, you might be in cahoots with attackers, we will fight an undeclared war against you." Quite simply, being in cahoots is not the same as doing the deed.

War has to be a last resort. After Vietnam, Korea, Iraq I and II, have we not learned that obvious lesson?

-Robert Capozzi



Deprecated: Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated in /var/www/html/fr/freeliberal.com/textpattern/lib/constants.php on line 136