Observe the logic:

Get this exchange on Fox News Sunday (11 Jan) between Chris Wallace and Mexico's Vicente Fox:

WALLACE: One of the sorest issues was your opposition to the war in Iraq. Now, after Saddam Hussein's capture and seeing the U.S. trying to establish a democracy there, do you sometimes think that perhaps the president was right and that you were wrong?

FOX: No. No. I think that by different roads you can get to Rome.

The main purpose is to rescue Iraq from the dictator, and that was accomplished. Number two is to move Iraq into a democratic nation, a free nation, with citizens who start enjoying better opportunities to their own development.

And this route, it's working as well as maybe the other one could have worked.

WALLACE: Do you still think there was another way to deal with Saddam Hussein, though, short of invasion?

FOX: Well, I am not sure that we have to go back to the discussions and the positions then. But our position was very clear that multilateralism is a key issue on this 21st century, and it should be enhanced and developed to the better of all nations.

posted by Quiddity at 1/11/2004 08:34:00 PM