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Today, Iraq

North Korea is a rogue nuclear-capable state. Iran is a rogue nuclear-building state. Syria is a rogue state. Cuba is a rogue state. Indonesia is a rogue state. Pakistan is a rogue nuclear-capable state, but it is, perhaps perilously, less so now. Palestine under Arafat was a rogue state, but it seems now to be coming around. Iraq and Afghanistan were rogue states, but are now more or less "fixed" and improving daily.

Who has shown the guts, fortitude, and might to even begin to influence and yes, fight, to turn this situation around? The USA, under Bush leadership. Freedom is in the hearts of the people of these countries, but they have all been suppressed under tyrants. With a strong push, they start the process toward freedom.

No country, including America, has the military power to "fix" these remaining problem states all at once, and bring their own chosen forms of democracy to the people.

One at a time, however, is a different story. The Left as usual wants to ignore the nuclear threat, and try to talk, talk, talk themselves out at the walls of indifference and greed rogue states present. Witness Iran and North Korea.

So, let the talks go on and on, but at the end of the day...what rogue states listen to is the believable threat of military force. (witness Libya, and, hesitantly, Egypt) That is unfortunate, but true.

It is obvious that the only countries willing to show force to these rogue states, and to turn them towards democracy and freedom, is a US-led coalition, however small it is or might become. Old Europe looks inward, mesmerized by the construction of the EU, scared to move internationally, perhaps because it is so very, very weak militarily and financially, and it has been robbed of the will to do good by pacifists and political opportunists. I see them as paralyzed by their overly-nuanced thinking and pseudo-intellectual pretentions.

Perhaps some truly believe that the US wants an empire. They are wrong. Who in their right mind would want that problem? The US does not want an empire, and never has wanted one. Empire is a false and delusional idea. But it will persist in the minds of those who want to denigrate the US and Bush. Leftists to be sure!

# posted by Mannning @ 1:32 PM