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ethics of rebuilding Iraq  (Page 2 of 2)  Bear in mind that
there was a peculiar threat that Saddam Hussein posed ...
There's a logic in the administration's reasoning. You can't
make [weapons of mass destruction] WMD in any amounts that
matter in a cave in Afghanistan. You must have a sophisticated
military-industrial factory. A fly-by-night, nomadic terrorist
group can't get its arms around it. You need a nation state
willing to do this. The only nation state that was deeply
invested in bio-chemical stuff was Iraq.  Skip to next paragraph
A common line holds that since Napoleon, no two "mature"
democracies have ever fought a war against each other. Why don't
democracies typically fight each other? If they don't, how does
that affect the ethics of shaping the world in the American
image and likeness?  Kidder: I think what happens is that first
of all, the essence of democracy, there are controls and checks
and balances... [They] make it difficult