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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Little Joe who wrote (19988)12/15/2003 1:26:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793742
 
In fact the war was an enormous success and the aftermath is being well managed.

It's clear that some big mistakes were made. The absurd thing is everybody in the world who expects the aftermath of a major war to be without big mistakes, as if it were all an engineering project, planned from the beginning - not that engineering projects aren't prone to mistakes too. You have to be able to look at the big picture in an informed way to discern which mistakes might have been avoidable and which were not.

One thing more I would add. If the "international community" hadn't wasted so much effort yowling about how the war in Iraq was going to cause an environmental disaster when all the oil wells burned, was going to cause 100,000 casualties in Stalingrad-on-the-Tigris, was going to generate a million Iraqi refugees (remember the tent cities in Jordan?), and cause another 3 million Iraqis to starve, well, maybe we wouldn't have wasted so much of our effort planning for these non-events.
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