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To: unclewest who wrote (115613)5/23/2005 11:16:18 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793912
 
I am not a resident of NYC. I worked there for many years. I supported both wars. We are not winning this one just like we didnt win in vietnam. I am looking for a creative way to win. Your view is that anyone who disagrees with you is a traitor and that NYC is haven for traitors. Kumar and I just argued for an hour over different ways to approach the war.
Well the reality now is that we have a shiaa run iraq whose first official act was to cozy up to iran. We are heading to a split up of the country or at best a loose confederation with some revenue sharing from oil to cool the sunnis down. We will end up allying with the kurds which is something we have to do but something which will piss of the arabs like our support of israel. We will also piss off the Turks. Shiaa will move toward iran for worse or someday better if iran gets to democracy first (if either ever do that is). Sunnis will battle sunnis for control and that will be baathists, democrats and terrorists with arab countries supporting the baathists who are more likely to win back power. Anyway thats the way i see it developing.



To: unclewest who wrote (115613)5/23/2005 11:17:31 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793912
 
Some may see no national security value in billions of dollars being spent on other so-called security programs.

Speaking of billions of dollars, today's Post has a featured article on the cost and effectiveness of the US-VISIT program.

washingtonpost.com