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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (71041)	2/2/2003 4:36:26 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hmm, Bill, this one strikes me as the classic might makes right position. I'm trying to think of "wars" which "we" won but could be considered bad. I can think of several but strikes me you have in mind public opinion, not some individual's opinion. And there you may well be right. However, I would guess that public opinion had to convince itself (wonderful reification in that sentence) that the war was wrong, not that it was lost. Perhaps there is a logic there somewhere. None springs readily to my mind. You can argue that those little Caribbean escapades during the Reagan years were wrong; Bush I in Panama lacks serious justification. And the ones we failed to undertake in Bosnia under Bush I and Clinton (at least for several years). But those are minor skirmishes. Don't really hit the category of a war. Just letting the fingers run across the keys.