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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (320930)1/15/2007 3:02:41 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1575844
 
Elroy, the bottom line is this. Some would argue against a surge because one consequence of the surge is already certain: more American deaths. Some would argue that pulling out of Iraq is the best course to take because saving American lives now is worth the uncertainty of an Iraqi civil war.

I don't agree with the latter reasoning because (a) we have a moral responsibility to fix what we broke (Powell's "Pottery Barn" argument), and (b) the resulting instability of a civil war would recreate the conditions that breed terrorism. We would essentially create another pre-9/11 Afghanistan, which itself was created when the Soviets pulled out.

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