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To: Bilow who wrote (119060)	11/10/2003 6:25:50 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Some outcomes can be achieved, some cannot. For example, I was in favor of the Afghan intervention, but not the Iraq one. No one was sure that the US could achieve victory in Afghanistan Bilow... In fact, I recall warnings aplenty that the US would get sucked in there as the Soviets had. So that argument doesn't convince me that you're still not just a defeatist, isolationationist procrastinator... You simple don't believe that a nation consisting of 33% of the global GDP, and it's most powerful military is capable of effecting change in Iraq, that we don't have the right to do so, nor that such a positive change in that country is in our long-term strategic interest. Yet, we conquered Iraq with far fewer men than previously thought necessary, with fewer casualities than had been anticipated (in the range of 1,500-3,000 soldiers, or even more if we went into the cities)... I would guess that you probably have doubts about even leaving the house each day (what could happento me?.. Is it worth it?.. Why don't I just stay home?).. You are still avoiding my single and only point, which is that the occupation of Iraq is doomed. I'm not avoiding it.. I just don't agree with it. The fact is that the US is doing very well amongst over 2/3 of the Iraqi population, the Kurds and Shiites. It's only the Sunnis that we're receiving problems from. And it may take a combination of Kurd/Shiite to suppress the Sunni "third leg" within Iraqi society. If anything, what is at risk is the future of Iraq.. It may be that Iraq, as we know itm, is doomed. Hawk