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To: michael97123 who wrote (77784)	2/26/2003 2:17:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Certainly I don't believe they would be rooting for America to lose, or cheering American deaths. But reasonable people can, and do, passionately and honestly hold different beliefs, based on their own fundamental values. When you recognize that a disagreement is based on that type of fundamental difference, at some point there's no point in trying to persuade the other.

To: michael97123 who wrote (77784)	2/26/2003 2:19:28 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is, of course, exactly right. I don't expect an Iraq war to have many American casualties, and I wouldn't wish it to either. Though I don't expect occupation and reconstruction to be an easy job, I wouldn't wish for difficulties there. I might wish for some realism, though. I can even see a modest silver lining. Once the magnitude of the task becomes clear I imagine that the loose talk about the next set of wars on the drawing board will be quelled for a while. Or maybe all the Iraqi "Arab Minds" will have an instant conversion to rational western thought, and it won't be hard at all. I somewhat doubt that last one, though.