Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Kristof raised all of his alarms to buttress a single point: that the U.S. would be smart to leave well enough alone. At one point, he reluctantly concedes that it might be easier to face a weaker Saddam today than a stronger one tomorrow, but then, inexplicably, he dismisses his own conclusion by saying, "but hey, Saddam is 65 years old. Tomorrow he may fall into a coffin on his own."
So here you have it: The liberals' argument against the war. Saddam may die before he can cause further harm. The same vague hope, of course, could have been directed at any number of historical tyrants including Hitler, or Stalin - or for that matter Ivan the Terrible.
Cheney did not see Kristof's column before publication, but in one paragraph he anticipated the quality of the opposition's argument. Many have argued, Cheney said, that "we should act only if he (Hussein) gets a nuclear weapon" but these same people, he added, would "then turn around and say that we cannot act because he has a nuclear weapon."
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