>>For sound reasons, I think you must admit. << I am not sure about that. What I do care about is the present situation. To stay within the context of my excerpt from the article I quoted, I think the situation would be better in terms of human and financial cost, of phase-space of alternatives, security to ME, including Israel, if US took the "13-volume, 2,500 page report" with them to Baghdad. They could even go in later, let's say in autumn, but much better prepared for all the eventualities, which actually kicked in.
Not to mention a possibly larger group of the willing. But...>>Surely the most authentic expression of the president's worldview came at Camp David the weekend after 9-11. "At some point," he declared, "we may be the only ones left. That's OK with me. We are America."<< |