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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (145413)	9/10/2004 5:19:34 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have no interest in attacking you. But I do have an interest in clarifying the choices we have made and the role the choices have played in getting us into a worse situation than we were in before. I am also interested in the choices we still have open to us -- including choices that will create conditions for a better and safer world. I clearly do NOT support our current policies and view the invasion of Iraq -- not merely the act itself, but the timing and method -- as the second worst foreign policy blunder in the history of our country (second only to Vietnam, and in some ways worse than Vietnam). I am appalled by people who hide behind political slogans about freedom and democracy when discussing Iraq -- you go far out on a limb when you resort to that sort of empty rhetoric. We should not have done what we did, when and how we did it -- if for no other reason that the self-inflicted harm to ourselves. Every time we drop another bomb and kill another uneducated young boy in the street, we set the stage for the people you so hate to recruit five more just like him. You refuse to acknowledge the role WE play in terrorism and then pat the US on the back for its nobility -- it is just plain wrong to be smug about a country that has screwed something up as badly as have we in Iraq. I have no partisan axe to grind, b ut I cannot help notice that the quality of the "leadership team" in place in Washington deserves collective credit for the worst foreign policy performance of any administration in the history of this country.