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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (213835)12/23/2004 7:21:15 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1585966
 
Ted,

re: Frankly, I don't think they are telling us how bad the conditions really are in Iraq.

The other bad part of this war is what it's done to the US from a strategic perspective. A couple of points:

*The vaulted US military now looks powerless against a ragtag insurgency. The fear factor of our military power is greatly diminished, along with our ability to negotiate and influence under threat of military intervention.

*As we are tied down in Iraq for years to come, the rest of the world knows we don't have the resources to react with any significant scale anywhere else.

*The rise in oil prices subsequent to the war is actually making the regimes the war was intended to undermine stronger. This is a monetary windfall for those governments.

The war has done so much harm it's difficult to believe. We are hated around the world from a moral perspective, and less respected from a power perspective. We are seen as the torturers, the aggressors, the world's super power bad guy. Our debt is through the roof, partially because of the war. The dollar has tanked.

Actually, the only good thing you can say is that we are polarized. At least we know somewhere near half the country recognizes how Bush has managed to undo the work of generations.

The Iraq decision will haunt this country. It may well be our Waterloo.

John
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