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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (50273)	6/14/2004 1:43:44 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

"Nearly three years after 9/11 we are in the strangest of all paradoxes: a war against fascists that we can easily win but are clearly not ready to fully wage. We have the best 500,000 soldiers in the history of civilization, a resolute president, and an informed citizenry that has already received a terrible preemptive blow that killed thousands." Dont take this the wrong way Nadine as i am a supporter of what we did in iraq at least for awhile longer. In retrospect with 20/20 hindsight as a guide, it may have been better to secure afganistan completely and moved in contiguous fashion to pakistan to apply our overwhelming force on al quaeda. Bin Laden et al might be dead. But for some reason we were not really willing to take casualties in south asia but are in iraq or perhaps the error is that we thought iraq to be a cakewalk which the war was but the peace isnt. This is where bush, DOD and perhaps even military leaders dont measure up. Perhaps no casualty legacy of vietnam became the few casualty legacy and that propelled us to leap over al quaeda to an easy iraq victory. Actually i argued that exact point prior to iraq when i called iraq the easiest target of the axis of evil and one which would set a good example for the others. Mike

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (50273)	6/14/2004 2:49:44 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793964

Feeding the Minotaur Victor Davis Hanson has clarity that is absolutely breathtaking!!! Thanks for posting this. If anyone doubts the nexus between right-wing Middle Eastern fascism and left-wing academic faddishness, go to booths in the Free Speech area at Berkeley or see what European elites have said and done for Hamas. Middle Eastern fascist killers enshrined as victims alongside our own oppressed? That has been gospel in our universities for the last three decades.