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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (80396)10/24/2004 6:44:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793840
 
What struck me as moronic about Jane Galt's comments was not the description of the Iraqi war as non-existential but her implication that it therefore wouldn't be so bad to elect Kerry even if he did decide to cut and run from the Iraq war.

This is what I compared to the Israelis in Lebanon. They too, considered that Lebanon was non-existential and therefore it wouldn't be too costly to lose it - and look at the price they have paid for that decision! You think if they could go back to May 2000 they would make the same decision again?

The idea that if a war isn't per se existential, therefore it won't have very high costs down the road if you lose - that was the moronic idea. I should have made that more clear.

As far as Al Qaeda is concerned, this is absolutely an existential war. I think I take them more seriously than you do. I don't think they are 'insects'. They are men, fanatics, who have devoted their lives to our destruction. Sept 11th was one-trial learning about their seriousness, as far as I was concerned.
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