--- On Friday, November 18, 2005 10:00 AM, Maureen scribed: --- > > We broke it? I thought the whole point of going in was that Saddam had > broken it. >
Like it or not the country was at least stable when Saddam was in power. Now there are insurrgencies everywhere and there would be a complete power vacuum if we left now. > I cannot in my wildest imagination ever imagine any scenario where > Iraq will > be stablized. Regardless of when we leave, chaos is going to erupt. > Well, since we made the mess we at least need to do our best to prevent this. A large-scale conflict in Iraq could easily spill over its borders...even invovling one of our NATO allies (Turkey). > This sounds remarkably like the Domino argument for why we couldn't > leave > Vietnam. > No, the domino theory was why we went into Viet Nam in the first place. Howie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| All-in-one: antivirus, antispam, firewall for your PC and PDA. Buy Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=60 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182932 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
