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What exactly are you saying? It sounds as if you're trying to present this middle eastern terrorism as some sort of a growing trend, prehaps normal or even a healthy expression of Muslim Fundamentalist frustration. Perhaps therapy should be introduced or perhaps a mild sedative. The events of 9/11 were historically unprecedented. Thousands of Americans just going about their daily lives were brutally murdered for what cause? What, tell me, is their cause? Seems to me it is unmitigated, unbridled hatred. To adress this we need sensitivity? As for Hussien, you mentioned something about nation states and their ability to develope and implement weapons of mass destruction. Yes history so far seems to have demonstrated this to be true. Hussien after all was a dictator in charge of a totaliaristic nation state, hell bent on the aquisition of weapons of mass destruction. Even if he had none in his posession at the time of our invasion, how long before a man with that much power and money and a shared hatred for the West, would it be before some Russian malcontent would sell him nuclear technology? Or for that matter North Korea. As far as waiting for the a coalition of willing nations to adress this problem, that wasn't going to happen. After all, for all these nations, France, Germany and Russia- to remove Hussien was a conflict of interest as far as lining their pockets. That includes the UN. They are sore as hell that we slaughtered thier cash cow. As far as the soft and hard thing goes, history seems to demonstrate the hard approach to totaliaristic dictators as being pretty effective. Remember Facism and Nazism? Lets see, Hitler was piosened by his own hand and Mussolini was strung up by his. Funny thing, you don't hear too much support for either of those causes anymore. Soft power? That seems like an oxymoron. Oh you mean soft power like the UN wields? You mean high minded discussions of moral authority and what is right while defenseless people in the Sudan are being wholesally slaughtered?
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