Looks like it worked.

;-)

Spurring comments comes with repercussions.

Now Lindy thinks we're SDAI-Brosz or Tom-Tech1, the twin-headed hydra of "WRONG" conservative thought and I'm back into the doghouse with Mary Anne who just wants me to go to Hades again. (Perhaps I should try to free Persephone when I get there?)

But hey, as threads go - and spurring debate - it was well worth it.

I find Fox's view fascinating - in essence he agrees with the article and yet believes it is too late to reframe the justification for ouster. Too much concern with what other nations think of us, would make the US the man in Aesop's fable, The Man, the Boy and the Donkey:

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
and said: "You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?"

So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See
that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides."

So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
son trudge along."

Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his
Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
with you and your hulking son?"

The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied
the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to
their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met
them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one
of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end
of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and
his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

"That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them:

"Please all, and you will please none."

Naturally, we can't hope to please the international community of nations, composed of two-bit dictatorships, industrial partners with Iraq and the religious Muslim nations. We just do what we do and let the scorn fall where it may. If the US didn't attack Iraq - let Saddam stay in power developing and distributing WMD - over half of the world would still hate the USA anyway!

Bowser comparing Bush to Caligula - that gave me a good laugh. Over-the-top statements like that are part and parcel of what I call the "hate freight train." The longer they ride on this train, the farther off the mark, their assessment becomes - bordering on textbook case paranoid-delusional fantasies.

This reminds me of another fable:

The Man Bitten by a Dog

A MAN who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone
who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he
wanted, said, "If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and
dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the
Dog that bit you." The Man who had been bitten laughed at this
advice and said, "Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I
should beg every Dog in the town to bite me."

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their
means of injuring you.

We are not going to give Saddam or the UN the bread with our blood on it. It will only encourage their hunger for the US' destruction.

I think the left should start out with Aesop's fables and work their way up the literary ladder!

SDAI-Tech1