March 24, 2003
IT'S A WONDERFUL COUNTRY (via Real Clear Politics):
Without U.S., world portrait would be bleak (Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 3/24/2003)In "It's a Wonderful Life," a suicidal George Bailey (James Stewart) is given a chance by his guardian angel to see what his hometown would have been like if he had never lived there....What would the world be like if there were no United States to lead?
In this latest case of Iraq, you could rest assured that Israel would be no more. And all of Europe and Japan would be oil-starved, their economies in shambles, their citizens hunkered down against constant terrorist threats.
But hey, we wouldn't have any war.
As Orrin posted yesterday, despotism is not peace. It is the U.S. military which is bringing peace to Iraq. John Stark was right: Live free or die. Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 24, 2003 2:34 PM
Comments
The Israel/Iraq point is actually backwards. If we don't handle Iraq, Israel will be forced to nuke Baghdad to take out Saddam. Our limited war is all that prevents total war.
Posted by: oj at March 24, 2003 6:53 PM