Slavdogg, please tell me you joking about the idea of using nukes. Wouldn't that be making use of a weapon of mass destruction? Isn't that what we're trying to avoid?
The North Koreans didn't give a damn about Australia until recently. Now we're a target, because our PM has brownnosed us into it. And I'm pretty bloody frightened about the whole thing.
Mike AI, Saudi Arabia has a McDonalds. I saw it in the Frontline doco about Al Queda this week. Actually, I think Chicken McNuggets could well be the source of a lot of hostility!!
Damn, I hate those things.
And I don't see things going as smoothly as you envision. Even if the US wins in Iraq, I think the resentment will remain in the region. A war against terrorism is essentially a war for people's minds, and I don't think the US govt. had done a good job so far. There's been a lot of hypocrisy in the way they have approached this - the talk of using nukes on Iraq is an example.
If the US govt wins, it will need to act absolutely scrupulously in how it deals with the oil, elections etc. I fervently hope they do; the cynic in me isn't so sure.
It's all too bloody depressing. Must go away and make more porn sites.