<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Good quote first (from the guy who wrote Brave New World):
<i>I wanted to change the world. But I have found that
the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)</i>
Now for the good stuff:
<i>NPR Commentary
> March 13, 2003
> PETER FREUNDLICH
> All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We
> are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam
> Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage
> war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war . The paramount principle
> is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert
> its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too
> important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
> Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
> democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that
> too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped
> by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
>
> Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot
> afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against
> Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
> sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
> might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does.
> And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
> oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave
> in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and
> people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
> choice but to ignore them.
>
> Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good thing that the members
> of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I
> only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and
> "Through the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and
> illogic and on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign
> policy. It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We
> must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing
> for someone who actually commands an army to say that.
>
> As a collector of laughable arguments, I'd be enjoying all this were it
> not for the fact that I know--we all know--that lives are going to be
> lost in what amounts to a freak, circular reasoning accident.
>
> Peter Freundlich is a freelance journalist in New York</i>
Guess some people in America have SOME level of common sense. Of course, he'd be a freelance journalist.....</div>
<i>I wanted to change the world. But I have found that
the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)</i>
Now for the good stuff:
<i>NPR Commentary
> March 13, 2003
> PETER FREUNDLICH
> All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We
> are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam
> Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage
> war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war . The paramount principle
> is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert
> its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too
> important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
> Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
> democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that
> too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped
> by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
>
> Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot
> afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against
> Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
> sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
> might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does.
> And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
> oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave
> in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and
> people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
> choice but to ignore them.
>
> Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good thing that the members
> of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I
> only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and
> "Through the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and
> illogic and on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign
> policy. It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We
> must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing
> for someone who actually commands an army to say that.
>
> As a collector of laughable arguments, I'd be enjoying all this were it
> not for the fact that I know--we all know--that lives are going to be
> lost in what amounts to a freak, circular reasoning accident.
>
> Peter Freundlich is a freelance journalist in New York</i>
Guess some people in America have SOME level of common sense. Of course, he'd be a freelance journalist.....</div>
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
