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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5120)	3/29/2003 12:01:43 PM
From: Sojourner Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

We must bring in Arab/Islamic people into this battle quickly or we could fail.

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5120)	3/29/2003 12:10:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

We have already lost Afghanistan- we just don't know it yet. And worse, the Afghani people have lost. Mark my words. Even if we win militarily in Iraq, we have lost, I think. I'm sorry to say it, but I see no winning solution. We Americans simply won't want to commit the money we would need to commit in order to even have a shot at convincing the Iraqi people we really want to help them- because it's hard to commit that kind of money on a less than certain endeavor. And I can tell you for sure we don't have the money to wage this very expensive war and rebuild both Afghanistan and Iraq. So, we will wage war until we find a way out, or until we can declare victory and leave. Either way we have torn our global image to shreds, dramatically increased the odds of terrorism against US targets, and most importantly, and most dangerously, introduced the concept of preemptive invasions because of terrorist threats. Because terrorists travel, and are not necessarily associated with the country in which they may be based, this concept, when used by other nations, will be problematic for the US.