Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

On 19 Mar, 15:16, "Judson McClendon" <ju...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Howard Brazee" <how...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <ju...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As you say, I'm all for killing the terrorists, when they can be found.
But part of the "education" process is to provide a social environment
in which that can take place. As Bush pointed out, democracies are not
prone to starting wars with innocent neighbors. I do not think it is
the population of Iraq that is so opposed to democracy; the problem is
being imported from other countries, like Iran.

When democracies (and other states) start wars, they define the enemy
as guilty.   And every state is guilty of stuff.    If we don't find
weapons of mass destruction, we change our excuse.

Anyone who thinks Sadam Hussein wasn't interested in WMD is ignorant
of recent history and clueless about human nature. If we did not find
them, it was because he had moved them elsewhere, and/or not yet
developed what he wanted. What would have been better, to have waged
WWII in Europe, or taken Hitler out when he first started violating
the Armistice agreement? The latter would have saved some 50 million
lives and the devastation of Europe. Sadam Hussein, like Joseph Stalin,
is one of the few men in history who have fair claim to being more evil
than Hitler. Even Hitler had friends and people he cared about,

Such as Eva Braun and his niece (who committed suicide after suffering
years of hitlers' domineering patronage).

but
Saddam Hussein, like Stalin, had no such human emotion

Both Saddam and Stalin cared about some people. Saddam cared about the
members of his extended family until certain members (son-in-laws) did
the dirty on him and fled Iraq> He murdered them after luring them
back to Iraq with promises that all was forgiven. He still loved his
two daughters, two sons and wife until the sons were killed and the
father hung.

and was more
like a reptile than a human. Hussein was a serious danger to anyone on
the planet, and I for one will gladly pay my share of taxes to take him
out. But people clueless about human nature, like Neville Chamberlain,
never understand true evil until it bites their heads off, and then it
is too late, unfortunately, usually for many others.

Beware of criticising Neville Chamberlain. He knew that the UK was
weak and unfit to fight a war against Germany. By waving the piece of
paper and declaring peace in our time he bought the UK valuable time
to prepare for war.
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