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To: michael97123 who wrote (195586)	8/7/2006 12:02:26 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I buy the idea that using Hawk's definition the USA has adopted an "extremist" policy on regime change -- yes. And I buy the idea that it has been a catastrophic failure. As for "low hanging fruit" -- if by that you mean Iraq was the easiest regime to topple and we had a fig leaf of a reason to invade --yes, I buy that. Invading and destroying a regime is the really easy part. The hard part is to make something good happen in its place. We have created one of the most dangerous failed states of all time in Iraq. And we have set forces in motion in the middle east that are extremely costly and damaging to our interests. We had choices -- we made bad choices -- very bad ones.

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