Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00157)

Cass Silva wrote:
> Cass: I agree the UN is either corrupt or totally out of its depth,
> from Kofi Annan down. Why was there a timeline on when the troops
> could go into Irak? 
Weather. The summer was coming, and it would have been too hot for the 
troops to be able to fight an extended mission. There were not the 
resources to keep the soldiers there until the fall. And every world 
government (and any person who kept up with the military analysis 
services) knew it.

> Who are the enemies that would have been
> emboldened? 
The militarist pan-Islamic/Arab movement and the governments supporting 
it. They already had a joke: "You should never kill Americans. They 
might sue you!" The United States had a reputation of cutting and 
running or closing its eyes every time there was a terrorist attack. 
This would have resulted in numerous attacks against the United States.

> What do you mean by a power grab in Europe by France and
> Germany?
France and Germany wanted to be the pre-eminent power in the European 
Community. The most effective way to do so was to take the United States 
down a peg. The governments of England, Spain, and Italy, while they 
were not that keen on supporting the United States in Iraq, knew that 
the United States would keep its hands out of their domestic affairs, 
while France and Germany would not, and supported the United States in 
Iraq more to keep France and Germany out of power than for any great 
belief in The U.S.'s short-term goals.

Bart