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topic started 17.02.2003; 14:18:12
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 Christoph Pingel - Garbage In, Garbage Out 
17.02.2003; 14:18:12 (reads: 4320, responses:
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| It's funny and disgusting at the same time. Web columnist Dave Winer thinks that Condoleeza Rice made a valid point when she wants to ask the war protesters what they want to do about Saddam Hussein. The question is hardly an argument. Saddam Hussein is being delt with in the Security Council for the last 12 years, that's what people elect their governments to. But Winer gives it some thought and says: »She'll never get a meaningful answer. The problem is, in the West we raise people on a diet of intellectual garbage, so when we need them to think, you just get garbage back.«
Come on, give me a break! The gigo principle applies here, but it applies to Condi's question - and it applies to US foreign policy: are there any serious problems with so called »rouge states« that the US did not mingle with? Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, all of them sooner or later in history played a role entirely defined by the US government or intelligence, including the Taliban, Osama, Saddam Hussein, General Noriega, and so on. It's just cynical to rename failed foreign policy »failed states« and let the people there suffer twice: once from the leaders the US supported, and then again when they need to remove them.
Implicitly, Winer calls all statements of war protesters »garbage«, and that is as stupid as it is inacceptable.
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2003/02/16#When:5:24:23PM
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