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Politics : Fair and Balanced-'Duties Of a Democracy'
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To: LT who wrote (366)9/3/2006 11:51:12 AM
From: ksuave  Read Replies (1) of 1262
 
I felt the point of the article wasn’t about the fallout from civilian casualties but rather about – and it’s something a lot of people have been saying all along – that the global war on terrorism (GWOT) cannot be approached primarily as a military conflict. The simplistic notion that we’re going to win the battle for hearts and minds – and that’s what this war is – by just going in and kicking Middle Eastern ass with our military has more than proven misguided, and not just because it’s been so ineptly mismanaged.

If the invasion and occupation of Iraq is a part of the GWOT, then it’s a battle we chose and which we’re losing. There are many more terrorists with an avowed hatred of the US now in Iraq than there were three years ago, and they’re not Al Qaeda operatives from outside Iraq – they’re Iraqis. We’ve created terrorists, not dissuaded them. Yet the administration insists we must “stay the course.” The course of defeat.

The Bush administration is comprised of Houston oilmen – the vaunted MBA administration. What do these guys know about military campaigns, and what do they know about hearts and minds? They’re bottom line CEO’s, but it’s not America’s bottom line they’re looking after, not the America everyone on this thread thinks of when they say America. They are only looking at the bottom line of America’s aristocratic corporate class. The house of Bush is married to the house of Saud. Our military, underwritten by our tax dollars, has been assigned the expensive and dangerous assignment of providing security for an industry that is currently gouging the American public.

With this post, I hereby unbookmark this thread. Arguing politcs on bulletin boards is a waste of time in general, and an even larger waste of time with people obsessed with Bill Clinton's penis. See you in the kitchen.
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