Gary-- You did take a cheap shot, as did I when I called you guys anti-liberation. However, I am very interested in the response of those opposed to the war. The current information indicates the war will be a success. Certainly, the votes are hardly in, but the USUK, obviously, have been greeted as liberators.
I am interested, perhaps because I'm a psychologist, in how people handle incongruent information. Casualties were relatively low, and the welcome was high. There was more opposition to this war outside of Iraq than inside. Does that change the minds of those who opposed the war? Leon Festinger wrote a book about this, "When Prophecy Fails," about an end-of-the-world group who wait for Jesus to return on a given date and when he didn't, they claimed never to be precise about the date. Sun--this and Festinger's social comparison theory, later led to cognitive dissonance theory.
There were doom-and-gloom prophesies here, including my fear that this would never end. Can people simply admit when they are wrong and then change their assumptions, or do they reconstruct their assumptions and claim they were always right.
I am interested.
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