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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (224650)3/19/2007 9:44:18 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
One of the books I read before the war that influenced me a great deal was Mackey's THe Reckoning. In her conclusion she wrote,

"If the United States, by circumstance or choice, does invade Iraq, policy makers have to understand the real Iraq, not an Iraq built on some exaggerated expectation that the removal of the despot of Baghdad will solve all of Iraq's problems and all the challenges to the United States in the Persian Gulf ... The United States is again in danger of stumbling into the internal conflicts of another people, only to become trapped in old feuds it never comprehended."

She was just one of several who convinced me we were ignoring the realities in acting as we did.
And she gave plenty of "whys".
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