emails to M. Moore

[Ka-Talliya]

I don?t think it is really a matter of policing the world in Iraq?s case. It was more about Saddam not letting UN inspectors in even after the UN threatened them. When the UN weenied out and would do anything, people who would actually do something had to step in. I agree we do our fair share of ?world policing? but in this case it was more about not looking like weak yellow-bellies, and enforcing the statutes that UN refused to. If we had done it, the crazy bastard may have eventually got some kind of weapon to use not against us, but his neighbors under NATO defense. I'm glad he's out of power; I think it will eventually help to stabilize the whole region and prevent future trouble.

The stablization process in that region will take years. There is one hotbed of trouble I doubt we will ever touch again and that's Africa. Trying to stablize Africa would be like a prairie dog in a fire ant hill. Overwhelming and deadly.