Let's move onto the next conflict

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6) "dictatorships are quickly going out of fashion - and you too, could be 21 days from being out of a job"

Damn, JR ... I thought liberals had the market on naive locked up. So next on our agenda is a number of countries in the "Coalition of the willing (to suck off Uncle Sam's teat?)"?

Are you saying that the Bush Administration would come down hard in defense of Chavez and democracy should the Venezuelan military stage a coup tomorrow?

[quote]"Do you think it is possible that nonproliferation, even at the risk of force, could become US policy and applied consistently from administration to administration?"

"I think that is really unlikely to happen due to the nature of politics, especially in a two party system... permanence cannot really happen in terms of government policy because the next party will try to discredit the policies of the previous just as one party will discredit the other today."
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I'm not so sure about that particular arguement. In spite of the historical revisionist screeching of the uberpatriots we stayed pretty consistent throughout the Cold War.

I think it more likely that one party or another would begin to apply the policy selectively. Just off the top of my head, Japan or Australia could build very logical and persuasive arguements for the need of a nuclear deterent against China and Indonesia respectively.