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To: LindyBill who wrote (42800)	5/8/2004 9:32:40 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793600

Nice Jolo story, and consistent with my observations. I’m not quite sure what the point was. Maybe there wasn’t one. The story of the evil commies cutting an informer’s throat might be balanced out by some stories of the atrocities on the other side, but I won’t bother. That was not a fight of good guys vs. bad guys, no matter what partisans of the two sides would like us to believe. The notion that Paul Wolfowitz helped bring down Marcos is a systematically exaggerated fiction. Wolfowitz, along with many others, did struggle to convince Reagan that Marcos was a liability and had to go. The effort proved irrelevant, though, since by the time Reagan made up his mind the issue had already been decided on the streets of Manila. I don’t think anybody should be allowed to wax eloquent about the need for “victory” in Iraq without explaining what exactly would constitute victory. At this point nobody seems to know what the objective is, which makes it difficult to know what victory would be.