ur nation is being led by a frantic president who is consumed by the perceived demonic personality of one man – Saddam Hussein. As a result, Mr. Bush lacks objectivity in his analysis of foreign affairs.
If we are lucky, Mr. Bush’s war gamble will produce either a last-minute exile by Mr. Hussein, or a very brief skirmish with minimal casualties. If we are not so fortunate, Mr. Bush will have led our country into a swamp without easy exit.
The horror of 9/11 happened in substantial part because of our negligence and denial. We have remedied our part of that problem. In the process, however, this president has exploited rather than carefully addressed the underlying Islamic aspect of 9/11. He is riding roughshod over longtime U.S. alliances and flatly ignoring world public opinion.
Iraqi military threats have been effectively contained, and will be so limited into the future. There are many risks to U.S. peace and stability – not just one.
If we are the leaders of the Democratic free world, we must act with reason and restraint, not like cowboy sheriffs riding the range in west Texas.
Former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson was the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials following World War II. We are ignoring his wisdom, which was so eloquently stated in 1945: “We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And, we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievance or policies will justify resorting to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.”
Everett
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