[Vision2020] RE: Living document

[Mark Rounds]

The big player in stopping the war short of a drive on Bagdad was Saudi
Arabia.  They have always wanted to be able to pay Iraq off against Iran.
Their oil reserves are of the same magnitude as the Saudi's but the fact
that they are looked upon as unreliable business partners is to the Saudi's
distinct advantage.  Their squabbling has kept the Saudi's the preminent
Islamic power.  As I recall, Jordan and Syria also were very much against a
drive to oust Saddam.  

Just a History Geek

Mark Rounds

At 11:05 PM 12/13/2002 GMT, thansen@moscow.com wrote:
>Just a mild reminder.  Wasn't it George W. Sr. that stopped General
Schwarzkopf 
>from marching on Baghdad in '91 when the U.S. had total support from the 
>alliance?
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow
>
>> Yea but we made Al Gore Caesar, not GW.  GW's daddy bought him the
>> election.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Douglas [mailto:dougwils@moscow.com] 
>> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:52 AM
>> To: vision2020@moscow.com
>> Subject: Living document
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Dear visionaries,
>> 
>> As Pogo put it, we have met the enemy and he is us.
>> 
>> If the Constitution says that Congress is to declare war, not the
>> president, and this is blown off as a bit of constitutional arcana, then
>> why is not the 1st Amendment equally arcane? The 2nd Amendment? Or, more
>> to the point, the 9th and 10th?
>> 
>> The bad news is that when you make something malleable, as progressives
>> have diligently sought to do to the Constitution for generations, you
>> one day wake up to find that a malleable Constitution can stretch in any
>> direction, left or right, up or down. It is not enough to shrill in a
>> discontent way about the consequences, it is necessary to see how those
>> consequences have arisen.
>> 
>> Caesar has declared war. I don't know why those who made him Caesar
>> don't want to follow him.
>> 
>> Cordially,
>> 
>> Douglas Wilson
>> 
>> 
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