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To: epicure who wrote (109305)	8/1/2003 2:56:05 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Anything is possible, I guess.....

To: epicure who wrote (109305)	8/1/2003 5:24:08 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

We have not "rectified" the mistake- you can't give the dead back their lives. We've tried a different tack- but it remains to be scene whether it will be a success or not. Is it not better to try, and fail..., rather than to do nothing at all?? It would seem that the only guilt we should bear is when we lend support to regimes such as Saddam's, as the French and Russians have for decades now. Where's their guilt? Personally, I don't believe we should feel "guilt" about mistakes we may, or may not have made in Iraq, or having to "rectify" them... The fact is that we're under no real obligation to risk our lives on the behalf of the people who live there. Yet, we do so either when the collective national moral outrage is so high, or when our national leadership deems it of strategic interest to our national security. But one idea we should not permit to continue to persist is that we're under an obligation to make their lives perfect again, or that we owe them.. We should insist that we're their PARTNERS, and that only through such a partnership can their country be rebuilt. Hawk