On Jun 23, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Graham Dobson wrote:
> I think there is also a moral obligation not to abandon Iraq. A
> failed
> state in the heart of the middle east will be a breeding ground for
> terrorists to launch attacks around the world.
Oh, so you must have been opposed to the removal of Saddam, since
anyone with even a bit of knowledge of the region knew that only his
ruthlessness was able to hold together that unstable mix of divergent
interests. All military assessments before the invasion agreed that
it would take a very strong military presence to maintain the order
that Saddam was able to keep.
The reason that Iraq is such a mess now is that the Bush
Administration did not heed the advice of its own military experts
and instead followed the PNAC vision of an American-controlled state
in the ME automatically bringing stability to an unstable region. And
now we are supposed to continue to follow the advice of the people
who got us into this completely avoidable mess and trust them to get
us out. Sorry, this isn't baseball; you don't get three strikes.
-- Ed Leafe
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