----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer
> Joe Smith wrote:
>
> >I watched Don Rumsfield and some Pentagon press aide stumble badly
> >-- almost to the point of complete collapse of composure -- on CSPAN
> >last night. The question that gave them so much trouble was very
> >simple. Why, a reporter queried, was the US going to war over a
> >potential threat of WMDs in Iraq while it was only calling for talks
> >over actually existing WDMs in North Korea?
>
> Wow, Brit Hume had the answer to that on Fox News last night - maybe
> he forgot to tell the admin! It's this: they're approaching Iraq on
> the terror model, and NK on the Cold War model. Containment worked in
> the Cold War, but can't in the war on terrorism. Presumably the
> underlying concept is that Cold Warriors are rational and terrorists
> aren't. You deal with the former, and kill the latter.
>
> Doug
>
he gets paid to think up this crap? well, i guess there are high class call girls and cheap whores. i don't think this guy comes cheap, except regarding the intellectual level of his opinions. are we in the wrong business?
1. the middle east and south asia is a hotbed of nations armed to the teeth.
2. asking one of these nations, iraq, to divest itself of its weapons is like asking only one person to check his or her guns with the sheriff on entering 19th century tombstone.
R