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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (202582)9/11/2006 3:34:09 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
One guy a like a lot but who has been out of the public domain for some time is Bob Kerrey. He is a fixture in NY over at the New School and like many vietnam vets speaks eloquently when it comes to unnecessary or misfought wars--pick your poison as in iraq it seems to end up being both.
Richard Englel who covers iraq for NBC and has been there for 4 years talks of 10 year low grade civil war kept low grade by american presence. If we leave he says all hell breaks loose but if we stay its 1000 soldiers a year for 10 years with the hope that when the iraqis get exhausted they finally go to a solution we can live with. At this point i say let them fight. If we can get over the impending Darfur of post-american iraq, there may even be advantages as radical muslims turn on each other instead of on us. I thought the folks who rooted on the iran/iraq war back then were misguided and perhaps they were. But that was a war of two nations and had little to do with religion or ideology. A war between the shiaa and sunni otoh may exhaust the combatants to a point where we would be a hell of a lot safer than we are today. Then both will need the West to rebuild and maybe then jihadism is replaced by modernism.
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