>If only there wasn't that pesky problem of asassinating heads of state being illegal... Sure could've avoided a whole lot of death and injuries on both sides...
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In the words of the immortal H. Kissinger "The illegal we do right away, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
>>Woodwards latest book is interesting, in the excerpts I've seen he makes a compelling case for lack of leadership. I like Bob Barr's (LP candidate, former CIA) opinion on what he would have done...sent in a black ops team to take our Saddam and his sons. End of problem.
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>>>It is worth mentioning that public approval or disapproval does not necessarily indicate wisdom, one way or the other. Referendum is interesting, but not entirely the best way to form policy. i am not saying that approval or disapproval of the public - either foreign or domestic - is unimportant, only that it can't be the only factor in deciding extremely complex questions - especially when they are life and death issues.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
