POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Wishful Thinking, Mushroom Cloud, Groupthink
9 Jun 2012
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Foreign policies shouldn"t always be allowed to be veto"ed by other countries. Not bad idea to attack someone you know will attack you first. Wrong war at the wrong time by the wrong people. Going to be paying for the healthcare of veterans of iraq for 60-80 years. Countries stopped respecting the americans after starting a war that had no reasons for being. Like the fall of the british empire after wwi. Hadn"t chosen to start that war, while the americans chose to start the iraq war. You don"t want your response after a mushroom cloud. Made it hard to criticize the bush administration. Partaking in sanctions against saddam hussein from the gulf war. Pick out the information that mattered to them. Shut down people who were against the war. He let the message that iraq had weapons of mass destruction credible. Said there was a program to develop them.
