the public and/or media would make at least as big of deal of it as they
did the Rev. Wright thing, because, I want to know what Hillary is
talking about, and I want her to have to give a major policy speech
concerning this nuclear option thing to clarify her position. I cannot
believe that I'm the only person in the country to be wondering whether
she means to be yet another president who will send us into foreign wars
without a declaration from Congress, and a nuclear war at that.
Aggressive diplomacy at the tip of a hydrogen bomb does not impress me a
whole lot. .... Carol
raschueller wrote:
>
>
> --- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Dems2008%40yahoogroups.com>,
> catpurdy@... wrote:
> >
> > Carol - she has always emphasized aggressive diplomacy, but we need
> something
> > more than a peace sign in the age of terrorism. Eager is not the word.
> >
>
> We are already on the edge of renewing an arms race with Russia. Our
> allies in europe have tired of getting involved in affairs we drag
> them into. Beyond that we run the risk of further ouraging the
> "islamic extremists"... if you remember they have enjoyed a resurgence
> ever since we stationed our troops in their holy land which caused the
> birth of Al Quida.
>
> Now we have a DEMOCRATIC candidate suggesting that the ENTIRE middle
> east falls under our sphere of influence. Would the next logical step
> be to really ramp up the arms race in the middle east and endorse
> placing an ABM system in the Persian gulf? Further one would HOPE that
> any candidate would think twice about saying "we would hope NATO would..."
>
> Does that mean we would go without Nato? Does it mean that we are
> committing Nato forces? What about the use of tactical nukes. What if
> it is a non nuclear war with nuclear weapons potentially being used.
> What if isreal unilaterally used nuclear weapons? What if the
> originators of the attack come from Saudi Arabia?
>
> The point is this is a stupid question. The scenario is too simple to
> warrent a blanket policy statement involving a global commitment to
> use nuclear weapons in an entire region. In other words she shot off
> at the mouth and pandered (since we seem to like the word) to her
> conservative get tough regardless constituency. Should I remind
> everyone that a large portion of the Democratic party supported our
> involvement in Iraq.
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