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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1897)	6/5/2003 1:38:28 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 20773

It's amazing, the American naivete that a faction-ridden foreign culture with a language and religion and history we barely grasp can be broken down and reassembled like a Leggo set to suit our purposes. Anyone noticed the total lack of Middle East expertise among the leading ideological advocates of the Iraq operation? Any Arab hands who served in the region? Nope. The problem with Washington, it is too much like the rich folks who play Monopoly with real buildings. The Beltway crowd thinks that issuing edicts and spending a lot of money to revamp the rest of the universe is how the world works. Bosnia was an easier nut to crack than Iraq; eight years after the end of the war it is barely functional (dysfunctional is more like it) as a nation-state. Reality sucks sometimes. But hubris never ends. PS Anyone who like the nationbuilding schtick should do some reading on our many interventions in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, none of which lead to stable countries that could manage their own affairs to our satisfaction.

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