From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 15:50:07 MDT
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote:
> > Who would you say is the greater threat to the
> > United States (or to Americans): John Ashcroft
> > or Saddam Hussein?
>
> Ashcroft. Of course, I am evaluating them both as threats to the world,
> since the US is in the world
Come on Eli. Ashcroft is operating in an open society
with some checks and balances (you will notice judges
poking holes in his agenda left and right). Hussein
on the other hand has directly caused the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of people and has no real
checks and balances within Iraq and precious few
outside Iraq.
I'd consider Rumsfeld a greater threat than Ashcroft
because he doesn't have to behave under the same set
of checks and balances that Ashcroft does.
Robert
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