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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (691657)	7/12/2005 4:04:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Hey, guess that would make us the POWER BROKER. hehe." That, or the fool.... I believe toppling Saddam, and toppling the Taliban, at a cost of some 1/2 Trillion dollars was appropriate in an attempt to re-shape the Middle East. But I also believe that we have now reached a point of sharply diminishing returns, and that our very presence is both forestalling the ultimately necessary shake-out of Iraq into more rational and sustainable nations and borders... and also leaving us in the middle with a big target painted on our backs. Expenditure of a SECOND half Trillion of borrowed money at this point would be money-down-the-drain... wasteful to an extreme and ultimately self-defeating. (Iran and Saudi Arabia fighting each other over the spoils of Iraq would be very harmful economically in the short-run... but would be extremely beneficial to US interests in the LONG RUN. It would effectively mark the start of the end of the 'War on Terrorism' --- with the West the winner --- as the most radical of Islamicists would be turned against each other... and ultimately, the centuries-overdue Islamic Reformation would happen. Corrupt and repressive and un-democratic regimes would fall throughout the region.) The way to victory is to get out of the way of the inevitable, and let history happen.