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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (153437)12/6/2004 12:24:21 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Goldworldnet, re: Our goal is to rehabilitate the Middle East, not an easy goal by any means, but if we fail, Iraq will be nothing compared with what will come.

We should have known before we started that it is not within our power to "rehabilitate the Middle East." The Middle East will have to rehabilitate itself and avoid getting nuked by the west in the meantime. Having been too stupid to recognize the lessons of history and figure that out, we should not be so stupid that we cannot be taught that lesson anew. It's time we recognize that simple fact.

We should be thinking about how to get out of the way, adopt a policy of "do no more harm" and decrease the damage we've done. It will happen, the only question is whether we leave from the roof of the tallest building on choppers or whether we salvage what we can and leave with some dignity.

It does not help to cry that if we leave the sky will fall. The sky is already falling. Later we will have to deal with what we've created but that's just the way it is. We'll be much better able to deal with a chaotic, terrorist-haven Iraq if we don't have 100+ thousand troops trying to stay alive there while hundreds of billions of dollars disappear down the drain and the region becomes more and more antiAmerican. Ed
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