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To: steve dietrich who wrote (181350)	2/7/2006 3:34:36 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Direct military intervention works against the process in my opinion." In most cases i would agree because the nationalist imperative always works out badly for the intervener. Our troops get to play cop which is something they are not really trained for. And its not just cop--its cop with a foreign accent. Even NYPD would fail in iraq in that sense. The local folks need to stop terror and sometiems stopping terror involves terror. Shiaa getting killed for taking down sunni baath terrorists with violence. Someone should have reminded poor sunnis about that when they were blowing up shiaa mosques. What goes around keeps going around until order is restored. Wish the iraqis luck and lets get the fuck out of there by a clear date thru a timetable. Hell we can stay in non-populated non-vulnerable areas if we deem it necessary but we need to get out of the crossfire. And if sunni and shiaa still have to settle scores, so be it. OUr presence does nothing at this point to make that less likely. So lets light a fire under the asses of the good iraqis and give them a damn date.