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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (150003)8/19/2002 6:19:38 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1578435
 
My uncertainty about giving 100% support to the possible attack derives from concern about the costs (in lives, money, and possibly international political
capital) of the attack, not from any feeling that taking out Saddam would be wrong. If you believed that we could quickly and relatively painlessly take out
Saddam would you support it, or would you oppose it as wrong even if it had few negative practical consequences?

However, here significant loss of life, very likely civilian Arab life, is a certainty. Political fallout, particularly relative to Arab/American relations stands to suffer further. In many ways Iraq is a well defined, enemy, simpler to defeat. It is a near certainity that such a defeat will bring America further animosity by the common Arab and the underground extremist Islamic fundamentalist Arab. Hence, suppressing the perceived easier to defeat Iraqi threat is certain to increase the clear, more dificult to defeat underground Islamic threat. So what will have been accomplished?

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