NATO bombs Chinese embassy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon May 10 14:35:47 PDT 1999


Carl Remick wrote:


> Why, exactly, is it
> preferable to have someone at the controls -- who, of necessity, must be
> a lunatic or a war criminal -- rather than to have "nobody in the
> driver's seat"?

It may just be someone who *wants* to *appear* to be a lunatic. Remember both Kissinger and Nixon are on record as saying it doesn't hurt to have the "enemy" believe one to be a lunatic. Could a plane so lose its way that it dropped a few on the Vatican?

Carrol



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