[SJackson]

As Mr Kissinger notes, within six months of Saigon's fall, a Cuban expeditionary force appeared in Angola. Soviet and Cuban adventurism across the Third World picked up substantially. Three years later, the Shah of Iran was toppled. Then US diplomats were taken hostage in Teheran

Those, btw, are the dominoes the liberals would tell you never fell, across Africa and Central America. Add the ongoing plight of Cambodia and Vietnam to the dominoes as well.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[vbmoneyspender]

Given that this guy is writing from Singapore, he should talk to Lee Kuan Yew about why we couldn't simply walk away from South Vietnam. And why, even though we lost, our efforts in Vietnam were still important because we bought time for other countries in the region such as Thailand, Singapore, the Phillipines, etc. to hold back the Communist menace.

[prairiebreeze]

Failure is not an option.

[RightWhale]

Imagine the situation. A week from now, pressured by France, Germany and Russia, the US decides to give the United Nations inspectors more time.

Part of the Franco-Prussian-Flemish plan is to leave the US troops in the ME on standby.

This won't happen. If they don't go into Iraq, they will come home or move closer to NK.

[xzins]

Ridiculous.

I don't care how Bush gets what he wants.

If he bluffs it out of Saddam, so much the better.

If Saddam won't be budged and Bush takes him out, then that's the best, isn't it?

[bulldogs]

"But with Iraq, the need to maintain resolve seems obvious. I cannot see how America can back down without damaging its, well, credibility."


Back down. We can't wait to watch the bombs fall on TV.

[Soul Citizen]

One thing is for certain Russia sticking its head into this will not stop the war machine from advancing to its objective this go round!