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To: i-node who wrote (163223)	3/7/2003 12:47:10 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574441

yet Al Qaeda has been severely whipped; while they're still there, their ability to inflict severe injury on us has been greatly hampered. So there should be much less of a need to go beat up on Iraq anymore, right? AlQueda is actively being killed, so there's good reason to continue to work the inspection process, right? Al

To: i-node who wrote (163223)	3/7/2003 1:33:52 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574441

>Not at all. I'm suggesting that the Left's argument that the war against terror is not proceeding at a good pace is BS (as is evidenced by Biden's last minute changes to his speech the other day). We were told, up front, the war could take five or more years, yet Al Qaeda has been severely whipped; while they're still there, their ability to inflict severe injury on us has been greatly hampered. >How about a little praise for the strong leadership who has brought this major accomplishment about. I think this administration is doing a pretty darn good job tracking down Al-Qaida, especially given the news of the last few days. There's no doubt that this administration is very good at fighting. The question remains- how good are they at peacemaking? They did an excellent job taking out the Taliban, but Afghanistan is a mess (other than Kabul and a couple of the other major cities). We've gone from an administration of p*ssies that really were very strong in negotiating skills and almost managed to get a peace agreement between Israel and the PA, but stumbled because they were a bit naive when it came to understanding the motivations of the PLO, to a strongarm administration that knows how to shake things up (which is good), but doesn't know how to clean up afterwards, or perhaps doesn't care about doing so (which is bad). We need an administration somewhere in between. I do know Bush isn't there, but I haven't seen any evidence that any of the Dems would fill that happy medium. Until I do, I'm going to end up voting on domestic issues only, though foreign policy is very important to me. -Z