I said there were dozens, possibly hundreds of other alternatives, ranging from the farfetched (meaning that admittedly they'd probably have a snowball's chance in hell of working) to the conceivable. The number of ideas that would be fairly realistically conceivable are far fewer, but the problem is, aside from sanctions, none of them were tried.rtwngAvngr said:SO move onto idea #2. You said there dozens, or hundreds of alternatives to war. Thousands? Do I hear 10 thousand? Sold to the loser named nightwish.
Any responsible person will tell you that war isn't ever supposed to be the first option, it should always be the last one, the most drastic, after all else has been tried and failed. Bush didn't understand that (partially because this war fit perfectly into the stated neocon plan to immerse our forces in no fewer than four large-scale foreign wars made it so that Cheney and the other admin members who are members of PNAC made sure Bush didn't get the opportunity to understand that). But BushCo didn't try all the things they could have. They didn't start with A, then go on to B, then C, until they finally found one that worked. They started at A, it didn't work, so they went straight to Z, ignoring everything in between. And in your bid to be a good little GOP posterboy, you've cheered them for it. That makes you an idiot, and a terribly gullible one at that.