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To: Win Smith who wrote (19444)	7/26/2001 1:52:54 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

All of which were nits compared to the mess left by LBJ (Vietnam).

To: Win Smith who wrote (19444)	7/26/2001 5:05:49 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Defensive? Just trying to encapsulate a response and get off the box........

To: Win Smith who wrote (19444)	7/26/2001 7:05:32 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

the mess W's father left in the former Yugoslavia wasn't any worse than the mess he left in Iraq or Afghanistan. Bush Sr. did not create those messes. I don't see anything he could have done in Iraq that would have made that situation better today. Perhaps things might have been done differently in the Balkans and in Afghanistan, but I couldn't point to any policy that I could confidently say would have made much of a difference. The world is a complicated place; there are few certainties. One of those few is that understanding will not come from liberals and conservatives sticking their tongues out at each other. Neither side has all the answers.

To: Win Smith who wrote (19444)	7/26/2001 7:31:51 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Bush had a lot on his plate. The fact that he did not address the situation in the former Yugoslavia more aggressively does not mean that it was "his mess". He did not create it, nor was it clear how to address it, as long as we were not prepared to occupy Bosnia and Kosovo forever, taking the role of the British in Northern Ireland. Similarly with Iraq and Afghanistan: we achieved our limited objectives, but were hampered by our unwillingness to commit large amounts of troops to occupation.......