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tw, what's the solution here? IMO it seems as if most of the world wants to ignore or cover up their own problems, and George W. likes to rattle sabres. I'm not opposed to all of the sabre rattling, though. Would you have liked to seen another president, and who would that have been? What would make a good president?
It seems we have a problem of opposites. Is there a balanced solution? Negotiation is not going to work with Iraq; we have a cult of personality problem with Sadam Hussein, and it seems that North Korea doesn't want to ease the fears of the rest of the world. I have no problem with North Korea proceding with peaceful development of nuclear power, however Kim Jong-Il-Communication and Geroge W. are of a type that they will not see eye to eye.
If we stepped back from Israel, let them fend for themselves, basically got out of Middle-east politics, I see two situations. Israel will reduce any country that attacks them to ashes, and/or Israel is reduced to ashes. Is right or wrong that we get involved? Is it right or wrong that we not get involved?
I will not argue that the US has propped up many of the idiots that are causing the problems in the world today. The question is do we do somthing about it, or do we ignore it?
People will bitch and moan about the US acting as a world-wide police force, and my opinion is that if no one fullfilled this role, the world would be an even more dangerous place.
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