>No, I support universally approved invasions of nationas who are
>attempting successfully to destabilize their neighbors.
Have you taken a look at the Pentagon's covert actions, casing potential targets, in Iran in the Seymour Hersh article that Doug posted here?
<blockquote>The government consultant told me that the hawks in the Pentagon, in private discussions, have been urging a limited attack on Iran because they believe it could lead to a toppling of the religious leadership. "Within the soul of Iran there is a struggle between secular nationalists and reformers, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the fundamentalist Islamic movement," the consultant told me. "The minute the aura of invincibility which the mullahs enjoy is shattered, and with it the ability to hoodwink the West, the Iranian regime will collapse" -- like the former Communist regimes in Romania, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz share that belief, he said.
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Neo-cons have clearly gone bonkers.
In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. said that the United States is "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today," and what he said remains true. We might also call it the greatest purveyor of destabilization.
Even aside from wars, covert actions, and the like, the United States' yawning current account deficit is a great potential source of instability and financial terror in the world. And no one can fix that by invading this or any other country. -- Yoshie
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