It is so easy to suggest that what we're doing is no real solution. But what's a fellow to do? If we react the way our previous Prez did we simply encourage our enemies to act bolder until they get our attention. Once forced into the role of "victim", we got very little satisfaction when half the world rejoiced at our pain and the other half proffered no answers for our plight.
If we respond forcefully then we must be reminded that a superpower must be constrained because other countries also have WMD's. Isn't that what Iraq is all about? A country that has no business with WMD's is being told they won't be allowed to keep them. (Please spare me the lame politico-talk about oil-we invented the concept of overpaying the Arab states for their oil). If the US cannot enforce this then pray tell who can? France? What a laugh that is. France has no moral imperative so why should a Frenchman try to impose his value system on the US.
Working within the constraints of the United Nations is the only recourse that makes any sense. Today there are many countries that are absolutely out of control. Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela, Somalia, Sudan, etc...etc... Their very existence destabilizes the countries around them and ultimately the world. But how to work within a governing body that couldn't agree on anything if their worldly existence depended upon it...which it does.
The greatest danger we have is in our inability to determine a course of events that Americans can agree on... This will be our downfall. As we allow our partisan self interests to interfere with national resolve we will emasculate our leaders and accelerate the process of disintegration that has already begun.
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