BB:

It is not abdicating responsibility to oppose the accelerating spiral of violence espoused by the Bushites. It is,m in fact, more responsible to NOT pull the trigger when you don't fully understand the situation, as it is certainly true GWB did not, than to pull the trigger on the hunch you might understand it. It takes a certain centered, compassionate intelligence to look further into a scene and find out what is going on it before jumping in like a commando to shoot it up. W did not have this quality, does not have it now, and I feel sure never will.

That is why he is dangerous. The rush to violence is an insane trait except where imminent threat can be demonstrated, which in this case it was not.

THis in now way is meant to make less of your argument about the madness of Saddam Hussein. I see no reason to believe he was the maddest of world leaders or the most destructive. If the rationale of the invasion was purely that he was killing 28 people a day, we would have invaded Darfur long since.


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