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To: LindyBill who wrote (5744)8/24/2003 1:26:19 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 793625
 
It's become fashionable lately to criticize the administration for not having enough ________fill in the blank in Iraq. But I wonder if it's really needed.

It seems to me we are up against the "law of diminishing return". If we give the Iraqi's too much in the way of assistance, will they do for themselves when that assistance is gone? If we give the Iraqi's too much military presence, will they be neglect in protecting their own country once we leave? Will they form the security apparatus needed to govern their nation?

Knowing the balance of where the law of diminishing return reverses itself is more difficult than Kagan and Kristol have suggested in their piece. In fact, they don't address it at all, suggesting instead that more of everything is always better, and the law of diminishing return doesn't exist.

In the end, the Iraqi people will have to find their own path. They will have to fix their own infrastructure problems after 35 years of neglect. They will have to provide for their own peoples safety, and they will have to find a way of navigating the torturous path toward democracy.

Big media has focused on the problems in Baghdad, and the random bombings to fill our news pages. However, I wonder if the big picture of life in Iraq is really as bad as they suggest.
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