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To: greenspirit who wrote (35528)3/19/2004 8:26:30 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (5) of 793677
 
The issue of "do we have enough troops" has always been a difficult one to judge.

Lehrer asked Wolfowitz that direct question yesterday, referencing Friedman's column. Wolfowitz insisted we didn't need more troops but rather more intelligence.

I know way to little to presume to have an opinion on that. I did think we should have had more troops in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. We were derelict in not protecting people and institutions from the initial rampage. And I think that the tours in Iraq have been too hard on our reserves and we need more replacements. But I couldn't begin to speculate about current troop levels. It is distressing, though, to see civilian engineers or aid personnel killed for lack of protection. It's asking too much of civilians to work under those conditions.

We are seeing more and more the gap between socialism and totalitarianism is closer than many believe.

I don't question for a moment the connection between socialism and totalitarianism. But I wonder if folks who focus on the fact that the incoming government in Spain is socialist aren't injecting some oranges into the apples. That may be largely coincidental. Had the opposition party been of some other political stripe, it still would have been against involvement in Iraq because it was, after all, the opposition and the engagement in Iraq was very unpopular with the Spanish people. That the Spanish have chosen to go socialist has it's own problems given the economic gains made in Spain under the previous government, but perhaps that's a separate matter. Remember, too, that Spain was the Fascist variety of totalitarian in its recent history.
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