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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (110259)8/6/2003 4:05:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
One curious feature of much of this leftist writing is the way they assume that their assumptions are obvious to everybody. They assume that the Iraq War was a colossal failure that has "blown the strategy of pre-emptive war out of the water" and is now a hopeless quagmire, so no need to argue about it!

A neutral observer might point on that the Americans conquered Iraq in three weeks, and are now facing low-level and scattered guerilla resistance, mainly concentrated in the Sunni triangle, with pretty decent cooperation from the rest of the country. Not, on the face of it, a "failure" or a "quagmire", particularly as it is now only five months since the start of the war. Surely the jury still out as to how things will turn out in the end.
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