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To: paul_philp who wrote (88641)	4/1/2003 5:46:29 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi paul_philp; Re: "With Syria allowing several thousand across the border to fight for Iraq and supply Iraqi fighters and now Iran is taking in AQ members from Anwar, is this about to become a regional war?" No. What's happening is that the local minor powers are combining together in order to kick our asses. There's no reason for them to attack us directly, all they have to do is allow movement of weapons and "volunteers" across their borders. And since we've bitten off more than we can possibly chew, there's no way that we can widen the war to include those countries. (If we invaded Iran, for example, all it would do, at best, is vastly increase the number of draftees we'd have to collect up to garrison the badly controlled territory, and further increase the periphery that we would be unable to control the movement of men and weapons over.) The US is a sea power. It is not possible for us to win land wars in Asia without the assistance of a land power. Certainly we're not going to make the Rumsfeld mistake in Syria or Iran. -- Carl

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