Reply #42: Good thing he didn't have to do it then... [View All]

[DjTj]

...I think Edwards believes the support would have been there. He seems to suggest that he wouldn't have been held hostage by the Security Council, but he also knows he wouldn't have been massing the troops so early and I think he honestly believes he could have gotten the Security Council to at least impose sanctions and force real inspections.

I'm not even sure John Edwards has played out all the scenarios in his head, because he's often said that it's meaningless and insincere to go back and second-guess a particular situation that will not happen again. Anything I try to come up with is pure speculation.

Rehashing the "What if Gore had picked Edwards, was elected President, then was assassinated so Edwards was the post-911 President that decided to confront Saddam Hussein" scenario is a fun intellectual exercise, but the real question we should be asking is: Will President Edwards pre-emptively attack North Korea? Iran? Syria? Nobody's bothered to ask him these questions yet, but I'm pretty confident it's not on his agenda. However, the last time I checked the PNAC agenda... (If you try to claim that Edwards is secretly an advocate of PNAC, I'm not going to respond)