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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:31:42 GMT
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I've posted links to Hanson stuff before, and he's probably one of my favorites
at NRO (not exactly a hotbed of balanced reporting or opinions) as he puts
things into interesting perspectives even if I don't always agree with him.
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200310100842.asp
The final paragraphs:
"Finally, rogue states like Iran and North Korea will soon emulate the strategy
of Saddam Hussein — but learning the critical lesson of first finishing their
bombs before invading neighbors or confronting the United States. Thus the irony
of this phony debate is that, in the future, an exasperated United States, in an
act of unilateral defense, will reluctantly shy away from the thankless task of
policing such regimes, and instead press on with its own military preparedness
and missile defense — allowing the more circumspect and purportedly sober EU and
U.N. to pay blackmail or pass empty resolutions to deal with these new rogue
nuclear states.
Good luck to them both."
I can hardly wait. (and I won't be "relucantly shying", I'll be cheering all the
way)
We are not the world's policeman and the sooner we leave the rest of the world
to their own devices, the better. If it tarnishes the reputation of the EU and
the UN a bit after they fail to do better at it than we did, oh well...
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