Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Bilow who wrote (152364)	11/23/2004 8:38:32 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl, I am hoping that the current policy works and that a better iraq emerges after elections. If this cannot be done, we will most probably have to alter policy. One choice would be is to add to our military presence. Another is to announce and end date and be prepared ultimatley to go to a three state solution as the ultimate fall back. For me its not about the casualties-- that i can handle, its about the effectiveness of policy over time. I feel that the attack on falujah was justified and i hope it affects the enemies command and control structure much in the same way as when we routed the Taliban. I am unsure of that but still hopeful. Yes i believed in the war but most recently have been a critic of the way post war period has been handled. I have called for rummys resignation for about a year. I am hoping that the new aggressive posture will work. As i have said, i give it a 50/50 chance which somehow offends the GST types who insist there is no hope. The fact that irsq has not been a great success does not mean that the anti war posters are right in all cases for all time. If i remember correctly, you said during the time of the invasion that the US would sustain thousands of casualties. Mike

To: Bilow who wrote (152364)	11/23/2004 1:36:49 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl, Mike, Neocon, re: That is the political reality that Neocon must face, that the American people simply do not have the will to win in Iraq. The "will to win" what? What is it in Iraq that the American people should have the will to "win" at the cost of lives and billions? I suspect the issue has been so "nuanced" by the Bush Administration that you'd get many different answers from various supporters. In that clouded circumstance it's a given that the "will" would be unsustainable. Ed