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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (29002)	6/6/2004 4:45:32 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I was trying to get you to straighten out your thinking about terrorists. You said they are the most dangerous enemy. Yet you know almost nothing about them. This is not a joke about Ossama bin Laden. Terrorism is a threat to the world. But remember that 19 men were able to wreak havvoc on 9-11. They did not need an army to do that. But it's clear that they will also never succeed in beating America. And while I do think that we need to be focused on the threat of terrorism, I think that this administration has taken advantage of the fears of Americans like yourself. The terrorists will likely strike again. And we should endeavor to strike back. But this is not a war that can be fought by a daring landing on the shores of France, as was the tactic during WWII. It requires a new kind of thinking and strategies. The war as executed in Iraq does not further the battle against terror. The strategy was ill thought out for anything more than ousting Saddam. I would liken it to a knee jerk reaction, which can do more harm than good. A more thorough analysis was needed. More planning. More assistance from other nations, especially Arab nations. What we are looking at in Iraq is not a failed policy...but almost no policy at all. It's been a grab bag of alternatives tried and discarded. This in the end had led to animosity of the Iraqis towards their liberators. While the outcome in Iraq is anything but certain, it's clear that terrorists are still planning and getting into position for another attack. We have approached the war on terror in a hap hazzard manner. Had we focused on perfection in the attack on Al Qaeda we would be far safer today. We'd have stronger alliances in the war on terror. And ultimately our position against Saddam would have been strengthened to the point that he could have been extinguished from within by the Iraqis themselves. That would have been a more preferable approach. I dare say that if the Iraqis could have done this with world support, then it would already be taking place in Iran as well. Our downfall in the war on terror comes when we stop striving for perfection. Orca