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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (12197)2/15/2006 6:46:27 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 540889
 
Once you have parked an army of 150,000 troops in one country along with air and naval support, it can't be picked up and moved easily to another theater of conflict, for both logistical and political will reasons. All the resources we have in Iraq limit to some degree what we do in Afghanistan, and make an invasion of Iran unthinkable without a draft.

So the premise that we are defeating Al Qaeda by patrolling Iraqi streets and drawing AQ fighters there is tenuous. We can play dueling assumptions all night but it is boring.

That leaves the Saddam-as-threat argument and democratize-the-Middle-East argument that some support and some do not.

I simply find the "fight them there instead of here" argument especially weak. But others will disagree. So that is my last post on the topic.
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