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Pre-emptive Democracy for Iraq
From Tikkun Magazine, editor Rabbi Michael Lerner (http://www.tikkun.org)
28.01.2003
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We, the undersigned, believe that the Iraqi people have the same dignity as all other peoples of the world; that, like all people, they have inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to choose their own representative government free from external influence.
and breadth with which he is approaching it does feel different. look, some context, fareed. a couple of months ago, before the olympics, we seemed to be heading inex horribly toward conflict. now we re talking peace and diplomacy. that s a good thing. but i think sue me is right to inject some notes of caution and restraint. how did we get here? first, relentless economic pressure initiated by the obama administration and smartly continued by president trump. but second, north korea has made so much progress with its nuclear weapons and missiles, it can afford a time-out. and third, there was probably some effect of fire and fury from president trump, both koreas desperately wanted to avoid some kind of preemptive war. now is the hard part. we re at the beginning of a process, at best, not the end of one. it s incredibly complex. it took two years to negotiate the iran deal and there are so many traps. north korea has been a master at basically stringing along negotiations, wringing
potentially for what the administration has called preventive war, or preemptive war. envision the united states potentially attacking north korea in the absence of an imminent or actual threat against the united states. deterrence makes good sense, that s very essential for us to maintain. obviously we don t ever o take f the table the threat of the use ofor force. but preemptive war if one were thinking of executing that, be catastrophic. mark: oh, susan. susan. i nearly walked out of the roomu the great tammy bruce is with us. i ve got to say this, tammy. you know, susan rice is and people like her the reason we are at this point. for 24 years, the susan rices of the world have told us there s nothing to worry about.