Day 2 Hawk
Dom's simple summary of world politics:
Iraq - Good idea, handled badly. Result: Cockup.
Labor Party: I actually think there are plenty of clever and fully sane people in Australia's Labor party. Mark Latham just wasn't one of them. As I've posted before I'm no fan of Howard, but it's amazing how many people let their Howard hatred overcome common sense last election. Fortunately Australia wasn't dumb enough to elect Latham. Now we move to today.
I've always liked Beazley (not just because I'm from WA), but after hearing him acting as a popularist yesterday I lost all respect for him. Sadly I have to move him to the insane camp and hope they get a new leader before the next election. Australia needs a real opposition. It's time for them to act.
Iran - Calling them a part of the axis of evil killed off the country's reformers. Result: A country which showed signs of progress is now going nuclear. A country which is a natural enemy of Sunni extremism is forced into a corner and left with very few options. Not a good idea Neo-cons.
Result: We stuffed it up. We backed them into a corner and allowed the old guard to crack down on the reformers. Now we have to stop them. They're going nuclear and that will be a disaster. An even bigger disaster than North Korea getting nukes. However because Iraq is so screwed up we can't deal with Iran, which is a far bigger threat.
North Korea - NK wants cash, and they want to survive. We know they sell narcotics, they sell weapons, they counterfeit money. Whatever it takes.
Of course they'll sell nukes for cash, but there isn't really much we can do about it. North Korea going nuclear has absolutely nothing to do with the Axis of Evil speech. They were already going Nuclear long before that. They signed deals in the early 90s to give up nukes while continually working on them in secret. They were never going to stop.
Options: Bad and Worse. I don't know which to choose.
Sad day for the world. Even sadder if we do nothing about Iran.
Iraq - Good idea, handled badly. Result: Cockup.
Labor Party: I actually think there are plenty of clever and fully sane people in Australia's Labor party. Mark Latham just wasn't one of them. As I've posted before I'm no fan of Howard, but it's amazing how many people let their Howard hatred overcome common sense last election. Fortunately Australia wasn't dumb enough to elect Latham. Now we move to today.
I've always liked Beazley (not just because I'm from WA), but after hearing him acting as a popularist yesterday I lost all respect for him. Sadly I have to move him to the insane camp and hope they get a new leader before the next election. Australia needs a real opposition. It's time for them to act.
Iran - Calling them a part of the axis of evil killed off the country's reformers. Result: A country which showed signs of progress is now going nuclear. A country which is a natural enemy of Sunni extremism is forced into a corner and left with very few options. Not a good idea Neo-cons.
Result: We stuffed it up. We backed them into a corner and allowed the old guard to crack down on the reformers. Now we have to stop them. They're going nuclear and that will be a disaster. An even bigger disaster than North Korea getting nukes. However because Iraq is so screwed up we can't deal with Iran, which is a far bigger threat.
North Korea - NK wants cash, and they want to survive. We know they sell narcotics, they sell weapons, they counterfeit money. Whatever it takes.
Of course they'll sell nukes for cash, but there isn't really much we can do about it. North Korea going nuclear has absolutely nothing to do with the Axis of Evil speech. They were already going Nuclear long before that. They signed deals in the early 90s to give up nukes while continually working on them in secret. They were never going to stop.
Options: Bad and Worse. I don't know which to choose.
Sad day for the world. Even sadder if we do nothing about Iran.
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