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To: KLP who wrote (128148)	4/2/2004 11:14:27 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Boards like this one on SI mostly look at the world through the rear-view mirror. Look at what occupies us -- Iraq, a country that was irrelevant to the war on terror in 2001 and is only relevant now because it has been pushed into a chaotic and ungovernable state where American are being slaughtered every day. Almost no time is spent on this thread looking forward or focusing on the issues that are clearly emerging as central to our national security. We spend our time counting losses or chest thumping about the stupid "war in Iraq. North Korea is nuclear. Iran appears to be well on its way to being nuclear. Much of the old Soviet empire, now fractured into many pieces is nuclear. Pakistan is nuclear. We should be concerned about terrorists becoming nuclear. And we should be worried about a world that grows more ripe by the day for violence. But instead, we are forced to focus on the irrelevant -- Iraq. Bush made Iraq a priority, and the damage done means we are destined to deal with the mess in Iraq -- while the real issues go unanswered.