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To: FaultLine who wrote (151182)	11/10/2004 3:15:06 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The goals of our foreign "policy" are becoming increasingly unclear to me. I see us destroying a medium-sized city with 100,000 plus civilians trapped in a bombardment that cannot possibly pretend to distinguish civilians from combatants -- and I must ask, what does anybody really expect to accomplish with this? I clipped an assessment of the storming of Fallujah that asks a similar set of questions in a more lucid manner. slate.msn.com FL, do you not wonder at the readiness we demonstrate to kill without there seeming to be any outcome that we would find acceptable? Are we to kill long enough to have a round of voting and then say all is well as we seem to have done in Afghanistan? As an American, do you see a nation with a foreign policy that befits our values and our strategic interests? How many do we need to kill? If we have killed more than 100,000 so far, and that excludes Fallujah, and if we have maimed hundreds of thousands more, and if we have taken dead and wounded of our own approaching ten thousand young men and women, should we not stand up and demand to know what the goal of all of this really can be?

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