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To: ManyMoose who wrote (193400)	1/19/2007 8:59:16 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) of 793970

Once we get into a war, if the reasons for getting into it are good, it is worthwhile staying until the thing is done. Otherwise don't get in it in the first place. While that's a legitimate overall philosophy, I think you have to keep testing your assumptions as you go along, and ask if those reasons are still valid. For example, one of the major reasons to have gone into Iraq was to remove a leader who had contemptuously refused to abide by agreements he made to end the first Gulf War. His regime was overthrown and he's been executed. That goal has been accomplished, so why are we continuing to suffer the loss of American lives and billions of dollars? The neocon blueprint for establishing a democratic heterogeneous state was an admirable one, but in retrospect, was it feasible? It seems to me that, with the exception of the Kurds, there are simply too many Iraqis who are more interested in killing each other than in creating a stable and prosperous state. At what point we admit that the costs are simply too high, or that the desired results are too unlikely?

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