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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7827)12/20/2006 6:09:21 PM
From: teevee  Read Replies (2) of 15987
 
I have said before that afghanistan was ripe... still is...

That was the place to wage an iraq type of war. Afghanistan was the place to change that culture. It would take 30 years to see reults and another 30 for it to really take hold. It takes a long time to get that way, takes a long time to change

I suggest you put your views in the context of James Lovelock's book, The Revenge of Gaia - Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate of Humanity.

If Lovelock's theories are correct, the mid latitudes around the world will be unfit for human habitation in less than 50 years. That means that Darfur, the Mediterranean, the entire middle east etc will become empty deserts making even the heart of Australia look like an oasis. Inter tribal strife will only become more intense in the short term (next 3 decades). Thankfully North America will be buffered by the coming tsunami of human refugees to more northerly areas. We will have enough problems of our own as temperatures and sea level rises. In short, perhaps we should start to look at our presence in places like Iraq and Afghanistan as "frontier" holding actions only, and to keep those "Moslem tribes" from obtaining the financial capability to attack us on our own "tribal homelands".
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