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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (48063)2/5/2008 9:15:28 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541627
 
we would give the Al Qaeda movement a chance to get off the ropes where it is being hurt and we would destroy our credibility with future allies in the fight against Islamic radicals, and to a less extent in any fight that is anti-terrorism/anti-insurgency/anti-guerilla, rather than conventional

Tim,
1. Too late--we've already given "the Al Qaeda movement a chance to get off the ropes where it is being hurt"; that is one of the primary reasons why diverting attention to Iraq in '02 was a huge mistake. The chickens are coming home to roost now in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

2. "we would destroy our credibility with future allies in the fight against Islamic radicals"--we've managed to do that too. Yet another primary reason for not invading Iraq. Up until the point at which Bush ordered the inspectors to leave, he was doing OK (not great, but OK--he would have done much better to have gotten inspectors in Iraq and let them do their work for a year or two while focusing on Afghanistan. But nevermind.

3. "to a less extent in any fight that is anti-terrorism/anti-insurgency/anti-guerilla, rather than conventional"; The Bush admin has damaged US credibility in the world in so many ways it is impossible to count them. If the next administration follows in their footsteps (a McCain admin, in most ways), we will be in even deeper trouble. At least McCain vaguely recognizes that climate change is a reality. But his pronouncements on the issue show that he doesn't see how serious the problem really is. But then, I suspect you are a skeptic a la Lomborg, so it doesn't really matter.
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