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Originally Posted by Equilibrium
I can only say that the circumstances of the time provide their own context.
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If communism was good enough reason for a democrat, Then 9/11 warrants much much more.
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One must be wary of stereotypes. Nixon was perceived to be a staunch anti-communist who was expected to release the US military from its self-imposed political restrictions and take the war into North Vietnam.
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True, but he had to stop the bigger threat Soviet Union,and China was more than willing.
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Completely against the perception of the "Cold Warrior" label given to him.
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Indians dont have high opinion about him,
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Then I must say you are far more cynical than I in this situation.
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We have been at the reciving end of terrorism for nearly 2 decades.
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Hussein indeed bluffed, but he did so because he believed that he had an appreciation of US foreign policy. He felt that the US would not invade Iraq because either a) we needed him as a bulwark against Iran (which I believed then) b) the US would never want to occupy and administer Iraq c) WMD's in themselves would never provide the justification for the US Congress, public, the UN, etc. to invade and occupy Iraq
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He didnt consider the American attitude after 9/11 and the strategic location of his real estate.
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Iran, no matter what the polemicists may claim was never to be the subject of a US regime change. Iraq was to have provided that with the shining example of the validity of democratic principles in an Arab Muslim country.
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I dont believe that, if Iraq would have gone well, Iran would have been next. But it didnt.