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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (16775)	9/17/2001 11:47:44 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Only America is in a position to impose a comprehensive settlement. Israel labored under constraints we do not have. Iraq had the biggest, best trained, best armed military in the region, and its troops were worthless, with the exception of the relatively small elite guards, whom we could have slaughtered at the end anyway. No one doubts we could have marched on Baghdad and conquered it, either, we were constrained by coalition politics and the fear that the public would not put up with a long term occupation. The other states are less formidable than Iraq, and there is no meaningful integration of forces in the region, either. Desert Storm took exactly one day longer than I anticipated, because I had not made allowances for inclement weather. As long as we have the resolve, and an adequate degree of international support, this is not going to be very protracted, nor very bloody, nor will it effect the homefront too dreadfully. We can knock out their main ability to mount large actions, such as the one on the 11th, within a year.........

To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (16775)	9/17/2001 12:01:47 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Hi Raymond Clutts; Re: "You may underestimate the severity of this conflict and the extent of the casualties we will sustain." I'm hoping that what happened here is that fairly moderate regimes were basically playing with matches, and accidentally set a little too much stuff on fire. I'd guess that Pakistan may have regrets about supporting the Taliban for real politic reasons now that the Taliban is threatening them with holy war. I'm hoping that the moderate regimes will now keep a tighter lid on their radical religious citizens, and that this will, at the very least, redirect the energies of those fanatics towards them instead of us. -- Carl