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Politics : Let's Start The War And Get It Over With -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (429)	3/5/2003 11:08:40 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 808

Easy to say that with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. It's like playing last year's stock market: Don't you wish you could? There were reasons that seemed good at the time for what was done. Afghanistan? They're next to Pakistan, which next to India. Want a Communist regime in the world's 2nd-most-populous country in addition to the first? How much real estate do you give up? Remember, the Cold War was a high stakes game. Iraq? Iraq was the foe of Iran. Iran was a deadly enemy who had kidnapped US diplomats and was trying to spread revolution throughout the ME. At the time, it made since to help their enemy. Although the Iran-Iraq War was a case where it was impossible to pick someone to cheer for; it seemed best if it just continued forever. Too bad it didn't.