Andrew wrote: I wrote: > >> The sectarian violence now occurring in Iraq was sparked when the >> Al-Askari Mosque (the Golden Mosque) was destroyed last February by >> Al Qaida. Why did Al Qaida do it? To prolong the violence in >Iraq. >> Why did they want to prolong the violence? Because of the presence > of the >> U.S. in Iraq. > > And that is what I call absolute and total nonsense. Your causative > chain of thought is founded on the basis that, somehow, Al Qaida's > hostility to America is BECAUSE of Iraq.
How do you arrive at that conclusion? AQ wants to prolong the violence because they are aware that Americans have a limited amount of patience; that by prolonging the violence they will force us to leave. And in fact they have pretty much done that because public opinion has turned against the war and it’s only a matter of time before we begin to withdraw. So we're going to loose, and Iran will step into the void we leave in Iraq, put down the Sunni resistance, and form a dangerous anti-American, anti-Israeli alliance. And short of reinstating the draft and widening the war (which will never happen under the current political climate) - essentially initiating WWIII, there is very little we can do about it. -- Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
