Re: OT - Innocent men held as Guantanamo Bay prisoners

On 21 Nov 2005 17:24:33 GMT, the renowned Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
>news:1132592661.680686.320970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Jim Yanik wrote:
>>> cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
>>> > Which is cheaper, occupying or watching?
>>>
>>> Except when another attack like Kuwait comes along,or when a nuke or
>>> other WMD goes off in some Western city.
>>>
>>> It's far cheaper in the long view to have a democratic,peaceful Iraqi
>>> government.
>>
>> If that happens, you haven't been conducting a very effective regime
>> of watching. Wheras between the two Iraq wars, the regime of watching
>> was quite effective.
>
>"watching" achieved NOTHING.
>
>>
>>> BTW,we and the UN have been "watching" N.Korea and Iran,NK now has
>>> nuclear weapons,and Iran is working towards making them."watching"
>>> along does nothing;it's taking ACTION when necessary that achieves
>>> things.
>>
>> The UN has no widely acknowledged authority to invasively watch or
>> take action in N. Korea or Iran;
>
>What about the NON-PROFLIFERATION treaty?
>NK has nuclear weapons in clear violation of that treaty.

North Korea withdrew from the NPT in January 2003.

They said they had nuclear weapons in February of 2005.




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