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To: SBHX who wrote (80405)10/24/2004 9:06:32 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793824
 
There are lots of important things that through procastination can become life threatening. A cancer for example. I believe Iraq and GWOT falls under this section, you do not.

You're creating disagreement where none exists. Please don't attribute your inferences to me. If you just read what I write, you and I will both be saved a lot of trouble.

This is what I said just a few posts ago:

<<If ignored, maybe in twenty or thirty years Islamism could could develop to the point where they could do us in. The threat is real and cannot be ignored. We need to be working to obviate a potentially existential war.>>

One central argument for going on the offensive is that Iraq is the center of gravity on the GWOT...

I think that going on the offensive in the WOT is most appropriate. I also think that there are some good reasons for going on the offensive in Iraq. You don't have to persuade me of that. The only thing I've been arguing is that the war was not existential.

If a war is existential, then you have to fight it or it's all over. If it is not existential, then it is optional.

Optional means that there are pros and cons, scenarios to be run, probabilities to compute, strategies to devise, etc. At the end of that you make a decision whether it is net advantageous to take military action or not. We elected to invade Iraq. I was not arguing that decision. I only asserted that the war was not existential, ergo, it was optional.
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