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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (52889)	11/3/2006 4:33:51 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>I am against nation building and using our troops as peacekeepers in areas of civil war or sectarian violence. The reward from such engagements is not great enough to justify the sacrifice, in my opinion.<< Bill - Maybe we're getting somewhere now. I agree with the above. Since it seems to me that it applies exactly to what we are doing in Iraq, given the fact that sectaran violence is the dominant form of violence there at present, I am very unhappy with the Bush Administration for getting us into the situation. This is one of many areas where Bush seems to have flip-flopped. Before the election of 2000, he said he didn't believe the military should engage in nation-building. Now he's got them doing it in not one, but two countries. And it turns out that he was right in the first place. The military are really not good at nation building. The results of their attempts at it speak for themselves. Or maybe the problem isn't that the military. I believe the U.S. military can accomplish a lot, given a clear plan and a well-defined, acheivable mission. Maybe the people at the top of the chain of command are the problem. - Allen