Agreed. But I don't think there is any question (except from Mike) that we moved assets, resources and focus from Afghanistan and applied them to Iraq.
I don't think there is much question that more assets, resources and focus would have IMPROVED THE ODDS of a great outcome. And probably improved the outcome. I think there is some question, but a valid argument can be made, that Pakistan trending was hurt in a number of ways by the Iraq initiative. It is worse than it could and should be. The minimum I would like to see is us not being blown up in the USA by these people. The second thing I would like to see is no Americans anywhere being blown up by these people. Things like women being able to attend school, not being killed for showing their nose in public, not being raped at will by their husbands, etc are probably out of the question at this point. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > To be fair, I don't know that you can say those regions wouldn't be > ruled by the Taliban today if Bush had not gotten us into Iraq. I > think Afghanistan would certainly be better off if we had not diverted > our attention but that region is notoriously difficult to rule and > hold. A central government-oriented, pro-West Democracy in Afghanistan > was by no means a gimme regardless of the decisions made in the US. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
