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   From: gofig@mac.com   
      
   In article , Jenn   
    wrote:   
      
   > In article <110120041343317236%gofig@mac.com>, Go Fig    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > In article , Jenn   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > In article <110120041250054857%gofig@mac.com>, Go Fig    
   > > > wrote:   
      
   > >   
   > > If on the end of your block, there was a house that was dealing drugs   
   > > and you went on record condemning this... would your moral authority be   
   > > undermined because you don't want drug dealers on your block ?   
   > >   
   > > Is this block and neighborhood in jeopardy because of the drug dealer ?   
   > >   
   > > If you sat back and did nothing or even just condemned it, would the   
   > > problem just go away on its own ?   
   > >   
   > > If you stood out there with a video camera recording everyone that went   
   > > into that drug house, would your moral authority be undermined ?   
   > >   
   > > jay   
   > > Sun Jan 11, 2004   
   > > mailto:gofig@mac.com   
   >   
   > so America has a right to invade any country it feels like invading?   
   > And this will lead to a better world for us and for everyone else?  or   
   > heck, even for us?   
      
   As for those with Nukes, or the relentless desire to acquire them,   
   yes... they must be stopped.  But that opinion does not differ from the   
   world opinion as expressed at the UN.  But as the UN ponders, the   
   psychopath in N. Korea stockpiles.  The UN answers this with begs,   
   pleads and bribes and gets laughed at or ignored... that is till he saw   
   a dirty old man crawl out of a spider box in Iraq.  Today, U.S.   
   inspectors are visiting previously un-inspected sites in N. Korea and   
   bomber in Libya says he will open his doors.   
      
   I wish the UN would do its charge, the U.S. can't always be the   
   janitors of the world.   
      
      
   > Saddam Hussein posed no particular threat outside his borders   
      
   I disagree with this.  He has thrown missiles at 6 countries.  He has   
   only been stopped because he didn't have nukes.  The fact that you   
   included "particular" in your wording indicates reservation on your   
   part too.  From when he was the power, but not in title yet, he wanted   
   nukes.  We have 1 single still of Rummy with the Butcher in '83, we   
   have video footage of Chirac in '77 hugging the butcher on closing the   
   deal for the atomic reactor... this from a country with the 2nd largest   
   oil reserves in the world... a nuclear reactor... good grief.   
      
   It was a huge controversy when Israel took it out PREEMPTIVELY in '81,   
   but most agree now that was the right thing to do.   
      
      
   > -- our job   
   > now to tell everyone in the world how to run their countries?  Look how   
   > well our previous attempts have worked out in Chile, in Iran, in Vietnam   
   > etc etc   
      
   It was America that lead the way in S. Africa, was that wrong?  Is it   
   wrong that the U.S. wants freedom for Cubans.  How many Cubans do you   
   see posting to this group, how many Cubans have you met in your   
   travels?  Because the U.S. made some mistakes previously, some very   
   serious, doesn't preclude this generation from having a true moral   
   compass.   
      
   The recent UN survey showed that those most oppressed in this world,   
   looked to America for their help first.   
      
   jay   
   Sun Jan 11, 2004   
   mailto:gofig@mac.com   
      
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