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To: redfish who wrote (126520)	3/18/2004 5:21:11 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's the Mother Test. If the decision-maker can't go to the mother of the dead soldier, and explain to them why, in a way that makes sense (to the mother, I mean), then it wasn't worth it. The last war (or "police action" or "intervention") America did, which passed the Mother Test, was WW2. How would you like to have the job, of explaining to the mothers of soldiers who've died in Iraq, that they died to prevent "intentions of WMD-related program activities"?

To: redfish who wrote (126520)	3/19/2004 8:04:06 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Nations are not great merely because they pursue narrow interests, but because they make broad contributions to the freedom, peace, and stability of the world. I do think that our national interests, narrowly construed, were implicated in the war with Iraq, but even if they were not, we had a particular duty to resolve that situation, having let down the Kurds and Shi'ia, who were slaughter for acts we encouraged after the first Gulf War. It was a matter of honor, and I think most of our military understand that......