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To: i-node who wrote (204865)10/5/2004 3:10:58 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573104
 
OTOH, it is crystal clear that Bush does have a plan. And I strongly disagree with any complaint about making it a "war" vs. a "police action". This is a WAR, and it is critical that it be treated as such. I believe Kerry would have treated it as a police action, although there is no way in hell he would admit it now.

Well if the current campaign against Islamic terrorism is best described as a "war", would you support invasions of and regime change in Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Peru as part of the "War on Drugs"?

Regime change in foreign countries requires war. Building a pro-Western democracy requires diplomacy. The two are totally different, and require different skill sets.

The first is easy (the US has the strongest military in the world, and will win any war it chooses), the second is hard, but they are not the same thing.



To: i-node who wrote (204865)10/5/2004 3:05:49 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573104
 
You can't have a war against a tactic.

The war paradigm is a major reason that Junior can't tell Al Qaeda from Iraqi nationalists.

TP