Another episode in the continuing saga of As the Worm Turns....

[kayell]

from of all people William F. Buckley Jr.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030709/45/4mj9l.html

No to Liberia

We are hard up on it in the matter of Liberia. The nation-changers see it as one more nation to change, and who would vote against a different nation, except for the matter of how to bring it about? The nation-changing program in Iraq (news - web sites) is going muddily, and it is good news that the Iraqi guerrillas don't have weapons of mass destruction at hand, but rifle fire and an occasional hand grenade serve their political purposes. They aren't enough to drive the coalition forces out of the country, but they are enough to give off a Chechnyan smell of perpetual armed resistance.

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President Bush (news - web sites) put off a decision to engage in Liberia. He said he wanted "all the facts." What facts are we short of that have a bearing on the challenge at hand? Our nation-building has given us Lebanon, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq. The intervention in Haiti, by President Clinton (news - web sites), was a political gesture designed to assure the black community that intervention in behalf of blacks was something the United States was willing to do.

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