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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (25026)7/25/2006 9:23:36 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 542889
 
The most insightful counterpoints to the administration's cheerleading are coming largely from the US military itself. This is one of the best summaries I have seen anywhere (from your article, last para):

Not only had the war “stressed the U.S. Army to the breaking point,” a study published by the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute declared, but it had also turned out to be “an unnecessary preventive war of choice” that “created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing the American homeland” against further attacks from Al Qaeda. The war “was not integral” to the global war on terrorism, the report concluded, but was a costly “detour from it.”
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