OUCH! ?Pearl Harbor in Reverse?

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/889365.asp?0cv=KB20#BODY

Quote:
NEWSWEEK: How would you describe Bush as a wartime president?
Historian Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Shlesinger: Well I think he?s made a fatal mistake. I think we?ve made a fatal mis-turn in our foreign policy by abandoning the doctrine of containment-plus-deterrence (which won the Cold War peacefully), and adopting as the basis of our foreign policy preventive war. Preventive war, anticipatory self-defense, was the doctrine with which the Japanese justified Pearl Harbor. FDR, an earlier American president, said that it was a date that will live in infamy. And now the Bush doctrine is a doctrine of preventive war, which makes America the self-appointed world?s judge, jury and executioner. However benign the motives, it?s bound to have a corrupting effect on our leadership. I think the whole notion of America as the world?s judge, jury and executioner is a tragically mistaken notion.
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And it goes on....

Now, who is this man:

?The bane of ideology,? wrote Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in his 1986 book ?The Cycles of American History,? ?is that it exalts abstractions over human beings. It impoverishes our sense of reality, and it impoverishes our imagination, too.? Schlesinger knows a few things about ideology and its role in history: In 1962 the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and advisor to President John F. Kennedy witnessed first-hand the tense unfolding and peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis. Today he is witnessing ?with deep gloom? what he calls a dangerous shift in American foreign policy towards the ideological.

[Rochard]

The difference is apples and oranges......

Japan attacked the US because their oil supply was slowly being cut off. Period.

The US has invaded Iraq because Iraq invaded Kuwait, failed to live up the terms of surrender, fires on planes flying the UN no fly zone, and refuses to give the UN complete access for inspection purposes. In the mean time Iraq continues to murder it's own population.

Iraq should be like Kuwait; Enjoying the fruits of all the money they have by producing oil. Instead, it's more like a third world country.

Also, it's important to mention that Iraq started the Iraq - Iran war, which killed nearly 2 million people.

Furthermore, the US is under attack. It's arab nations such as Iraq that supports terrorism ( i.e. World Trade Center). Don't tell me Iraq doesn't support this shit; Iraq is paying out tens of thousands to the "famlies of suicide bombers".

This fucker needs to be taken out. The UN has been dicking with Iraq for 12 years. The entire purpose of the UN is to avoid war; But because of this the UN is willing to sit on the sidelines and do nothing but complain.

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Originally posted by RocHard
The difference is apples and oranges......

Japan attacked the US because their oil supply was slowly being cut off. Period.

The US has invaded Iraq because Iraq invaded Kuwait, failed to live up the terms of surrender, fires on planes flying the UN no fly zone, and refuses to give the UN complete access for inspection purposes. In the mean time Iraq continues to murder it's own population.

Iraq should be like Kuwait; Enjoying the fruits of all the money they have by producing oil. Instead, it's more like a third world country.

Also, it's important to mention that Iraq started the Iraq - Iran war, which killed nearly 2 million people.

Furthermore, the US is under attack. It's arab nations such as Iraq that supports terrorism ( i.e. World Trade Center). Don't tell me Iraq doesn't support this shit; Iraq is paying out tens of thousands to the "famlies of suicide bombers".

This fucker needs to be taken out. The UN has been dicking with Iraq for 12 years. The entire purpose of the UN is to avoid war; But because of this the UN is willing to sit on the sidelines and do nothing but complain.

OK? Anyway, Arthur Schlesinger is probably an idiot.