Re: Overthrow Hussein?

Overthrowing Hussein is not a sign of weakness or strength (nobody doubts the 
US has enough military strength to take him out, although what then?).  Its 
more a sign of dementia.  As Thomas Friedman noted today:

"it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans have embraced President 
Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens world peace. There's only 
one small problem. President Bush thinks the axis of evil is Iran, Iraq and 
North Korea, and the Europeans think it's Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and 
Condi Rice."

This does not sound like a formula for starting up an effecient protection 
racket.  Right now there are no real alternatives to US leadership, but I 
suspect plenty of people are doing some thinking.  Screw Argentina, bomb Iraq, 
wed oneself to Israel's agenda re: Iran--this is not the plan of a leader.

Steven Sherman