tom_thinks
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Are we safer?
Personally, I'm not feeling that much safer. What's Bush gonna do to protect me from Hurricane Jean? While I'm awaiting the Hurricane, I've had a chance to do some reading. Check this out:
See you after the storm, whenever my power comes back on.
Nevertheless, the president's insistence that the world is safer without
Hussein is a powerful political position for one reason: It can't be disproved.
There is simply no way to rerun the past year and do a double-blind crossover
study of what would have happened if we hadn't invaded Iraq.
Are we better
off? Compared to what? Are we safer than we would have been with a long,
continuing pressure of world forces? Safer than if we'd focused on al Qaeda
instead?
For that matter, who is safer? The people Saddam Hussein
persecuted? Surely. But the 1,000 American soldiers who died? The 20,000 Iraqis?
See you after the storm, whenever my power comes back on.
posted by Tom, 9/25/2004 04:22:00 PM
