Winston001
1st June 2006, 16:36
New book just been released to remind shrinking liberals just what Saddam got up to over 35 years. Here is a review: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12218&R=EC643701F
"The book's editor, veteran French journalist Chris Kutschera, concludes that while "the American war may not have been the ideal way to put an end to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship," there was no better one, because overthrow was simply no longer possible from within a savagely repressed society. So: No invasion, more Saddam. And that was an outcome these authors--an array of Middle Eastern, European, and American journalists, academics, and activists--could not bear."
One of the points made is that only the West suffers moral agonies. No-one speaks of the choices made by human beings in other places to use guns, poison gas, genocide etc. The fault always comes back to the West.
And our thinkers and commentators simply forget the murders committed in totalitarian regimes.
"The book's editor, veteran French journalist Chris Kutschera, concludes that while "the American war may not have been the ideal way to put an end to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship," there was no better one, because overthrow was simply no longer possible from within a savagely repressed society. So: No invasion, more Saddam. And that was an outcome these authors--an array of Middle Eastern, European, and American journalists, academics, and activists--could not bear."
One of the points made is that only the West suffers moral agonies. No-one speaks of the choices made by human beings in other places to use guns, poison gas, genocide etc. The fault always comes back to the West.
And our thinkers and commentators simply forget the murders committed in totalitarian regimes.