C Students Rush to War

[El Blanco]

Did you even read the whole article? Dubya is contradicting what he said would be his approach to foreign policy when he was a candidate.

Did you notice anything significant happen in the last 3 years to maybe change our outlook on foriegn relations?

The 'very dirty real world' has taught that multi-lateral action is only way to effectively resolve geopolitical issues (the Gulf War Coalition being the prime example of that).

Rorshac alreadfy pointed out one example of coalition failure, how about another? Somalia.

At first, we only protected the food supplies and didn't touch the civil war. Then, when our forces were put under UN command, we start hunting warlords...no wait, one warlord who happened to be a political rival of Bhutros Bhutros-Gali. What was the outcome?

How is Sierra Leonne doing? Or Rawanda?

You may argue that Dubya went the whole mile to try to build international consensus on this issue. However, do you honestly believe his 'you're either with us or against us' proclamations, his couching of the coming conflict in Biblical black-and-white issues,

did you know if you harbor fugitives or give them aid or just sit back and watch them commit a crime without alerting the authorities you are commiting a crime? Thats what "with us or against us" means.

You complain about unilateralism, but you don't expect the rest of the world to anti up?

Maybe we can take a lesson from France and order lesser countries not to support us or they won't be allowe din our club.