Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: The Dream team Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_dream_team#16749 Post contents: @Paul, I concur with you in your response to Kari. Thre is a difference between aggresion and legitimate defense, and no amount of Christian virtue will obviate the need for the police. After 9-11 we were justified in going after the perpetrators, who happened to be holed up in Afghanistan, with the connivance of the government there. We would have been justified in pursuing them into Pakistan, since that's where they were escaping - this with the assistance of Pakistan's government. We were not justified, not morally and not strategically, to go on a wild goose chase into Iraq and engage in nation building, something that conservatives decried when Clinton did it in Kosovo (with the difference that Kosovo is a lot more peaceful than Irak is these days - either Clinton was a lucky bastard, or he knew what targets to pick and which ones to leave alone). I wish that people could tell the difference. Sent at: 2008 09 07