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Bill, don't forget North Korea. By focusing on a minor threat (Saddam) at best, NK now has 4-6 (who knows really!?) nuclear bombs. And negotiations ahve gone really well too! The great bush "ignore them" doctrine will be at least 2 paragraphs in future history books.
But the real deal is that since we're so over-extended militarily, we don't have a big stick anymore. Our big stick is all used up. And even if we did have one, remember our bankers, the Chinese, the guys who are funding our little quagmire over in Iraq, well, I don't think they'd be so keen to lend us the $2B per day to keep our "strong" economy afloat. You see, they are building a major military force, and have seen what a great job we've done in Iraq and yes, they can choose their neighbors, well that just means we've got no stick. It's really hard to argue with your bankers, the ones who will dwarf your economy within 5 years.
And if we wanted to use a carrot instead of a stick, well, just see above. We don't got no carrot neither, just the hole in the ground where it was 5 years ago and a huge note payable to the general store for all kinds of guns to kill any varmints comin' around.
World eco-politics, it doesn't really lend itself very well to one-line slogans: wanted, dead or alive; bring them to justice; and so on...
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