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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (94606)1/10/2005 9:35:12 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 793729
 
We could put down the insurrection if we didn't care about public opinion and if we weren't trying to establish a democracy.

But we are also a country that has over 10 times the population and a GDP that dwarfs Iraq. If Iraq was 10 times a big, even without being richer or more advanced, and the insurgency scaled with the increase in size, we probably couldn't put down the insurrection.

We could kill most of the population and say the insurrection has ended, but it would be killing the population not controlling it.

Tim
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