Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eddie Bettano" <eddiebettano at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc


>
> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> > It's a pity that the war-coalition is unable to
> > answer questions honestly
> > (for example: "where's the evidence" or "isn't this
> > war really about oil?")
> > in public.
>
> Gee wiz, I don't know, I'm not sure that one country
> store in Connecticut is a valid statistical
> sample of the honest discussion of this matter that is
> has been taking place in those parts of the world
> where we value free speach. I've got a house in Wilton
> Connecticut and next time I go up therre I'll have to
> see what the folks in the country store and pizza shop
> are saying, but I'm sure they haven't hung anyone from
> a football goal or cut any tounge out.
>
> The UN resolutions and the inspection reports are
> published. You can read them on the interent. Of
> course the UN says nothing at all about a "smoking
> gun." It does, however, provide the evidence. Now,
> what is to be done? Should the UN do nothing?

Mr. Blix yesterday said that he doesn't see a reason for war.

> Certainly, most of the world and the UN agrees with
> the President of the USA, doing nothing is not an
> option. But there are other option to war. The USA,
> other Nations, have worked on various alternatives to
> the war option. However, time is running out. Now,
> about Bush. Thus far his policies are failing.
> Although I think it is very difficult to determine
> when and if the  war on "terrorism" is being won or
> lost, I think, despite some sucesses, the war "on
> terrorism" is being lost.

There are been people who assert that this is the reason for Mr. Bush
changing the subject.

>Although not easily
> seperated from the broader political/military
> developments and hostilities where terror weapons,
> tactics, strategies, and  so on, are the norm, it
> seems to me that the casualties (human,
> tangible--land, economy, capital, intangible--i.e.,
> rights of US citizens and residents) of prosecuting
> this war on terrorism have been much too high.

I'm still unsure if the quick ending of the Afghanistan-war hasn't saved a
lot of lives there. There hasn't been *that* human catastrophe (hat had been
predicted by some critics) because the international organisations could
bring in the help.

Well, the inner-American questions are quite a different story. Despite my
criticism of several aspects of the domestic policy in the US I've never
lost my confidence in the general stability of American Democracy.

>Again,
> what about Bush policy? I'm more interested in Bush
> policy in the USA, and America. Here and in America
> Bush policy is failing just about everything. I'll say
> this much for the Bush administration, they will never
> be mistaken for pretending to be stick your head in
> the sand liberals with flowers in their hair, like
> Germany.

This is a misinterpretation of Germany's position.

> I think the Bush administration and the UN
> have got it right on proliferation and WMD. If any
> nation works out an exile or a regime change short of
> war, the Bush administration, its supporters in the
> caolition,  and the UN will get and should get most of
> the credit.
>

If this would be the outcome I really would be glad. But it works only if
there's no war. A war would turn the whole situation in the ME into a
nightmare.

Otto

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