10 October 2006
If only Saddam were still in power
12:33 PM
MSNBC published this Washington Post article on the North Korean nuke test. The article ends with this paragraph:
James B. Steinberg, President Bill Clinton's deputy national security adviser and now dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said the North Korea test will raise a larger question that echoes Ronald Reagan's most famous 1980 campaign line -- "With respect to the axis of evil," Steinberg said, "are you better off today than you were four years ago? . . . It's clear that the answer is we're worse off with respect to the nuclear proliferation problem in both North Korea and Iran than four to six years ago, and I would argue we're worse off in our overall security because of the situation in Iraq."
We're worse off because of the situation in Iraq. I suppose he means to imply that we'd be better off if only we weren't in Iraq. Would this not, by logical extension, mean that we'd be better off with Hussein still running things in Iraq? I think it means just that; and I don't think it's a very smart position to hold.
It also seems to imply that we might still have been able to do something to stop N. Korea. On that note, the Master Gunner outlines the three options we had, and still have. And I think he's right about which one is most necessary--however problematic.
James B. Steinberg, President Bill Clinton's deputy national security adviser and now dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said the North Korea test will raise a larger question that echoes Ronald Reagan's most famous 1980 campaign line -- "With respect to the axis of evil," Steinberg said, "are you better off today than you were four years ago? . . . It's clear that the answer is we're worse off with respect to the nuclear proliferation problem in both North Korea and Iran than four to six years ago, and I would argue we're worse off in our overall security because of the situation in Iraq."
We're worse off because of the situation in Iraq. I suppose he means to imply that we'd be better off if only we weren't in Iraq. Would this not, by logical extension, mean that we'd be better off with Hussein still running things in Iraq? I think it means just that; and I don't think it's a very smart position to hold.
It also seems to imply that we might still have been able to do something to stop N. Korea. On that note, the Master Gunner outlines the three options we had, and still have. And I think he's right about which one is most necessary--however problematic.
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