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To: geode00 who wrote (193882)	7/30/2006 7:23:57 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi geode00; Re: etc., etc., etc., I certainly agree that the Iraq war was the stupidest foreign policy decision this country has made in a very very long time. But the US has been very lucky. The last really stupid foreign policy decision France made got it partially occupied for 4 years by Germany. The last big mistake the USSR made ended up killing 20 million of its citizens. And everyone knows the horrendous mistakes that Germany and Japan made. The US is a powerful country and will survive the Iraq fiasco just fine. The damage in Iraq is substantial, but the damage to the US is not. War is an extremely destructive thing. You haven't seen a really significant war on this planet since 1945. Korea and Vietnam were just sideshows. By the way, it looks like the Lebanon fight is beginning to blow over. All we need now is some sort of reduction in rocket firing by Hezbollah and we get a return to status quo ante, but with the participants perhaps having learned a few things about each other. -- Carl