Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rat & Swan) writes: 

> And what right do Americans have to engage in preemptive military
> force against a sovereign foreign country which is not providing
> a direct threat?  If a country can come in and kill civilians and
> depose a government just because they don't approve
> of that government, why should we attack Saddam for invading in
> the First Gulf war -- or, for that matter, any of the Communist
> or Nazi takeovers?  Aggressive attack and "regime change" don't
> become right just because it's Americans who do it.  It's highly
> suspicious, too, that we do it to a country with lots of oil, but
> ignore a much more genuine threat, like North Korea, because Korea
> doesn't have anything the U.S. wants.

China has historically maintained a ring of buffer states, which we 
learned to our dismay in the Korean War.  We won't do anything in Korea 
because we don't have the power to do anything in Korea.  We won't do 
anything in Korea without Chinese permission, and so far they haven't 
shown any sign of giving it.

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