Tom,
The world is deliberately and massively making the lazy, unethical, dishonorable choice.
NK, Iraq and soon Iran will in fact emerge into much greater threats than they now are.
More people will continue to starve, die and be oppressed than are now facing it.
Because the UN has completely betrayed its purpose, because the fat corruption of Western Europe has reached new lows.
I hope Bush and Blair will not be deterred from the mindless mobs that march in support of tyrants and go forward.
But people around the world like the cheap and easy over the tough and right.
Look at this forum as a microcosm:
We are having serious debates here against people who among other things believe 911 was a Bush plot, that aliens are abducting people here, that in fact the world is run by grand conspiracies.
We are dealing with people worldwide who seriously say that Saddam is not a threat to world peace.
In the face of the deliberately blind and foolish, what can be said?
I wish all the supporters of Saddam and appeasement could all live right next to him and live out the inevitable results of their policies...but unfortunately we live in community.
I wonder just how many of the brave and bold protestors would still be brave and bold if they had to in fact live out their lives in the kind of world they are imposing on those of us who love freedom?
I think they would show in fact the true cowards and poultroons they are.
Ed