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To: Dale Baker who wrote (5058)	12/16/2003 2:29:13 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Dale, I'd love to be as optimistic as you are about the limits to American ruthlessness. But I find it hard believe that you wouldn't think about the alternatives. We are in a holding pattern for the time being because Syria and Iran intelligently refused to have their hand forced by our deliberate provocations. We did try to start a war with Syria in May, when we had incursions there and captured their border guards. However, Damascus remained calm. Failing that, we need more of a cover story to attack there. But we will. I've seen rumors that Karl Rove has put the kibosh on further adventurism until after the election. That might be a good respite for the military. But I certainly don't see the U.S. military as having been checkmated by the insurgents in Iraq. Just checked, for now. The game will proceed apace. We'll barb wire more recalcitrant villages, we'll start rounding up the usual suspects in Baghdad and the other major cities and start to fill up the new concentration camps on Iraq's western borders. It will be orderly brutality and very hush, hush. But at some point in time, we'll be ready to spring on the next victims.