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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (117234)	10/19/2003 10:55:46 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I hate that this war, by economic necessity must be a limited war, or what is referred to as a "Low Intensity Conflict (LIC)".. It's the toughest kind of war to fight because we're attempting to use the minimal amount of force necessary to achieve a desired result. The restraining factor is not money, it is the nature of the opponent. We are not fighting a nation, we are fighting an ideology, represented by a diffuse and ephemeral coalition of radical groups, many of which operate within states that are at least nominally allies. Strategies have to reflect these realities. Had we been living in 1941 and some Islamic militants performed such a 9/11 style attack on the Empire State building, supported by Saudi clerics and select royalty, we wouldn't be seeing any reluctance to invade that Kingdom and installing a moderate and "cooperative" regime on the Arabian peninsula. A ridiculous hypothesis. Comparison to 1941 is irrelevant, and today, when it matters, this course of action would do more harm than good. We do not have the capacity to "install" a moderate and cooperative regime in Saudi Arabia.