03-23-2003, 11:06 PM
Well, I informed myself a bit for the last two days and apparently everybody (at least the ones who should know about it, like Middle East experts etc.) except me is at least 99% sure that Iraq in fact has weapons of mass destruction. So I was wrong on that part.
I would still appreciate ANY comments on the Yemen part, perhaps somebody can confirm that the US canceled financial aid after a negative UN vote of Yemen in 1991 as I'm not entirely sure of this.
My view of the whole situation has changed somewhat with knowledge of the fact that Iraq has WMD. I understand that something has to be done about countries (regimes to be precise) which possess WMD and have shown in the past that they are willing to use them. But if a preventive strike is the only means to neutralize this threat, wouldn't the US have to attack North Korea as well, and as soon as possible, before the North Korean's have missiles that can reach the American West Coast? The regime in NK seems to be more than willing to use threats of any kind to get what it wants.
Perhaps I'm a bit rash with my assumptions, I just had my opinion more or less changed for me, so forgive my somewhat incoherent lie of reasoning :)
The question what to do about other countries with WMD or programs for their manufacturing (a German Middle-East expert said that would be about 20) and unstable governements looks to be a tricky one.
Greetings
Nuur
I would still appreciate ANY comments on the Yemen part, perhaps somebody can confirm that the US canceled financial aid after a negative UN vote of Yemen in 1991 as I'm not entirely sure of this.
My view of the whole situation has changed somewhat with knowledge of the fact that Iraq has WMD. I understand that something has to be done about countries (regimes to be precise) which possess WMD and have shown in the past that they are willing to use them. But if a preventive strike is the only means to neutralize this threat, wouldn't the US have to attack North Korea as well, and as soon as possible, before the North Korean's have missiles that can reach the American West Coast? The regime in NK seems to be more than willing to use threats of any kind to get what it wants.
Perhaps I'm a bit rash with my assumptions, I just had my opinion more or less changed for me, so forgive my somewhat incoherent lie of reasoning :)
The question what to do about other countries with WMD or programs for their manufacturing (a German Middle-East expert said that would be about 20) and unstable governements looks to be a tricky one.
Greetings
Nuur
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