[dd74]

You guys seen CNN since about 10AM PST? It looks like "Shock and Awe" is well underway in Baghdad.

I just can't really fault France and Germany exclusively for not being with us. There are so many factors involving their trade with Iraq, and their population, which (at least in Paris as I've seen) has a lot of Arab people.

What I can fault is their adamant attitude against the U.S. France, in particular, has as little ground to stand on in re. to the U.S. campaign as we "might" for going through with the campaign. They have yet to bring up a tangible reason for us not to do what we're doing. Again, I wonder why: is it because of France's economic interlinking with Iraq? Is it because of its fear of terrorism?

It's complete tit for tat on their end. Nothing substantial.

Island911 has a good point: this war will not end terrorism. To end it is almost impossible, because so much of what terrorism evolves from is an ideological mindset; i.e. religion, culture, longstanding economics where dollar-for-dollar disparity has been literally bred into generation after generation, etc.

Just a sidenote: I'm no saint on this board, but TargaDude - man - ease up on BeepBeep (Goran). As does he, you also make good arguments which are better put without calling anyone "moron."