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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: yard_man who wrote (7243)9/24/2002 10:11:50 AM
From: Jim Willie CB  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
why would Iraq nation building be any different from Afghany?
anyone paying attention to Afghany these days?
not in the news, boring, fails to meet with burger-eating, nintendo-playing, beer-gutted americans

Afghan is sliding into a civil war
their targets are american soldiers
we have succeeded in forming a coalition among tribes
a few key tribes are excluded
now attacks are more and more frequent
either in middle of night or bombs or ambushes by day
how are we doing over there?

failure there, failure anywhere
our model doesnt work in their world
I believe nothing by tyrant models work in their world
either tyrants or kingdoms
strange and backward self-destructive culture

what do we have planned, a new Kurdish state?
over objections of Turks, whose lands contain Kurdish tribesmen?
is a new Iraqi Council to include Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Seculars, and Europeans?
what an effing joke to even give the idea credulity!!!
we may have some good intentions here
but we are clueless on expecting anything to work

how about a United Nations base in Baghdad?
let's complete the Biblical Prophesies on this score

/ jim
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