Re: Fluffy Bunny
[quote=”lexxrobotech”]Firstly – give diplomacy a full chance at working. (This wasn’t done… the US felt it was taking too long)
Secondly – get the UN backing
Thirdly – attack as a last resort only.
You know, under Apartheid you had two complete opposite sides in an evil national conflict. What happened is that two great men (De Klerk and Mandela) got together, then got both evil factions together and thrashed it out behind closed doors. A peaceful solution was found, and the New South Africa was born. The evil militant blacks and the white racist dictatorship was destroyed and the South African public as a whole was freed. Without war. Without bloodshed. Diplomacy.[/quote]
**South Africa has no bearing in this conflict and there isn’t anything to say that what worked in South Africa will work here.
For starters it took the two main political leaders to resolve their differences, do you honestly think that Saddam is going to sit down with Bush and thrash out a peaceful solution?, this isn’t about two cultures sharing the same country as with SA, you are so way of the mark with this it’s unbelievable, peace was achieved within a country that didn’t threaten the security of the west, it has absolutely nothing to do with this conflict and as a result your attempt to liken your country’s success would never work in this scenario.
Saddam hates the west, diplomacy is an action that only works in the west, Saddam is not going to be told how to behave in a country that he more than runs, in his mind Iraq belongs to him, as do the Iraqi people.
And the US was right, it was not so much taking so long, more so that it would’ve taken longer, and all the while Saddam is given more time to play cat and mouse and either deploy or create more weapons, that simply is not a risk worth taking when everyone knows at the end of the day Saddam is a threat, that if left alone would attack the west.
ADM