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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (118511)11/4/2003 1:10:52 PM
From: Sig  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<<Of course people die every day- is your argument that augmenting the death toll isn't really significant, because people do die every day? We could really minimize the impact of 9/11, too, using that logic. Which I guess I don't have a problem with, as long as you are consistent with your minimizations. >>>

I would rather maximize the benefits of finishing the job in Iraq and having a Republic or Democracy in the area
1. A new generation of potential airline pilots and maintenance people are being trained and will be needed
2. The average age of Aerospace engineers is now 50 and the recent activity in support of Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq will create a new pool of experience in the field.
3. Experience with computers and instant communications at Central Command, plus coordination with other coalition forces will make our Military operations more efficient and reduce our losses in event future actions occur at any location.
4 Having an Iraq Military force acting on behalf of Democracy in the region will be a buffer and a huge benefit to the US if any major conflagration happens.
5. Perhaps 1 mm Iraqis will survive the next ten years, when they would not have done so under Saddam
With US forces spread globaly, we will probably have a lesser percentage of casualties overall (because of experience) than if the Iraq war had not been fought.
This is not provable, since we cannot measure a such events, but logic would lead to that conclusion.
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