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To: Road Walker who wrote (212638)	12/6/2004 8:48:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573941

"re: That's pretty extreme hyperbole... Neither statement is true... That is not true." Maybe you could flesh out your debate a little. You make a simple assertion. I made a simple denial. If you want to make an actual argument for your points you might get more complex arguments in response. But if you insist I'll add a little - " Look at the dollar... we're approaching third world status. " Third world status is not defined by the relative value of currencies or by recent changes in the value of currencies. Re:"we are losing one war, and if some SOB happens to attack us somewhere else we are in deep shit. We can't respond. " We aren't losing any war. I assume you are talking about Iraq by no serious measure are we losing. At worst you could say we are not winning, or that you don't think we are going to win. If someone else attacks us we are fairly well prepared to deal with it. The most dangerous military attack that even seems to be a distant remote posibility would probably be a North Korean invasion of the South. Even before Iraq most of the ground forces to resist such an invasion would come from the South. The US has tons of naval and air power to pour in to the conflict and it has ground power in reserve that could be deployed if it was really needed. About 150k soldiers and marines are in or soon to be in Iraq. The US army has about 500k soldiers and there are also over 150k marines. The US has had a larger percentage of its soldiers and marines involved in overseas conflicts for extended periods of time in the past. Tim