More on Iraq

Seven Reasons to Oppose a U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Let us start with it would be illegal and a violation of several documents the United States has signed and agreed to.

I am still digesting a discussion I had with my friend Peter Taylor (bottom of linked page for some of his essays) who feels that a technical reason to invade Iraq exists because they have not followed the surrender terms of the last war. I haven't seen any on line discussion of this to read the arguments. What surrender terms?

Nick Denton (no relation) wrote:"Detente did more than Star Wars to bring down the Soviet bloc; as soon as travel and communication were relaxed sufficiently for east Europeans to see how far they had been left behind, the economic case for communist government crumbled, peacefully. Vietnam turned capitalist, and would have much earlier had the US just let events take their course. Call it zen capitalism: surrender, and win.
And this is why I am worried now. The Arab terrorists who attacked the twin towers and the Pentagon had tasted the west. Some had spent years in Germany and other western countries, and spoke proficient English. At least one had an engineering degree. And, most disturbing of all: they, or their sympathizers, buffed up at high-end fitness gyms, and relaxed with lapdancers... Why disturbing? Because the militants tasted the west - wealth, safety, education, vanity, sex - and resisted. And, if seduction does not work, destruction may be the only answer."