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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (49034)2/13/2008 11:27:29 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 543106
 
So do you find it acceptable to stay in Iraq for 20 years to get them to a point they would be able to patrol their own people?

I don't know. I don't find that an attractive prospect and I wish with all my might that we hadn't put ourselves in the position to have to ask the question.

But it would depend on the cost, risks, and rewards of all the alternatives and their probabilities of success. I don't presume to know enough to tackle that analysis. What I do know is that rejecting that unattractive prospect independent of the alternatives and all their consequences is short sighted. Like I said before, there's no do-over. If pulling out is embraced as a proxy for a do-over wish, that's not healthy.
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