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To: Lane3 who wrote (525)	3/30/2003 9:03:50 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 7832

"Being right may be a Pyrrhic victory" Such a great way to put it. I've kept saying "Even if we win WHAT do we win?" The right to pour money into Iraq to "rebuild" it? The right to spend billions occupying it? The right to attempt to install a puppet that will last? The right to try to bring literacy up to a rate that will sustain democracy? (how many years will that take? 10 years? 20?) The right to creep away after the war and after declaring "victory" and leave Iraq a gaping hole and a reminder to the world of just what America is? Mr. X and I have talked about this for hours. And we can't figure out what a "win" looks like in this sad episode. We've decided that if it is possible for our government to withdraw and declare victory and save face, without trying to subdue Baghdad, that will probably be a "win". If we try to subdue Baghdad, I think there will be no win possible.

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