Who Is Next?

[CHIMO]

When Genseric, king of the Vandals, invaded northern Africa in 428 A.D., he probably didn't declare that his intention was to plunder and pillage. It's no accident that the name of his people has ended up, some 16 centuries later, as an enduring word in our vocabulary, synonymous with thuggery and hooliganism.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman enthused last week that "this is the most radical-liberal revolutionary war the U.S. has ever launched — a war of choice to install some democracy in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world."

Is he unaware of the public statements made by the "Project for a New American Century"— a group started in 1997 by people who are now top Bush administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The group openly urged Washington to take advantage of the decline of Soviet power by asserting American military power more forcefully around the world. Sounds a bit like imperialism.

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What more can one say?

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. One can say "NO," join the Resistance, and become an Enemy of the State

One can declare jihad, and dedicate whatever resources or talent you have to doing whatever it takes to get them all safely and humanely to the Hague to share a cell with and yell at Ariel Sharon about his disgusting habit of leaving toenail clippings on the floor.

[david_vincent]

2. Interesting...

so now it's a "war of choice"? So it's NOT a defensive action forced on us by the exigencies of our war on terrorism? It's one or the other, it can't be both. The administration has been telling us it's the latter, but now Tiffany Friedman is saying it's the former... so we can just forget all about what Governor Bush said about WMDs, right? It's a war of choice, so Bush LIED? Right, Tiffany?