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To: elmatador who wrote (12919)	12/25/2006 7:42:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218169

ElM, I'm much more "American" now than I was 20 years ago [or any time before], with my investments in the USA and globalization. The USA won the war against Saddam. That happened years ago. They then had "mission creep" = "Well, that was easy enough. Why don't we remake the Middle East in our image, like Go- created the world in -is image". The mistake they made with Part II is that in fact, people created -od in THEIR image, or, more precisely, the image they wanted to have of themselves. 20 years ago, and never before that, did Mq of this world look to the USA for protection. The USA was more of a threat than a protector. Now, [since the mid 1990s] I look to the USA for protection of my assets, and I pay them handsomely for that protection, with plenty left over to run Hubble and lots of other good things. Ironically though, the invention of cyberspace [Arpanet] and CDMA provides the mechanism for Mq to develop things beyond the USA and the Qi is proceeding apace. Just as chimps provided the template for humans to evolve beyond our chimpoid past, so, using cyberspace, we will evolve beyond the USA with citizens of the world as mere servants of the USA and serfs of local yokel states. Territorial temporal times are terminating. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (12919)	12/25/2006 7:55:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218169

Even some road-bombers can defeat the US on a foreign ground in un-conventional war. Defeat the US in their ground or using conventional war it is clearly impossible. Nah, we're pretty much at a stalemate, not against Saddam and the Iraqi military, which were trounced decisively in 2003, but at 4th generation warfare against guerrilla fighters who have the support of their neighborhoods. The question in Iraq has been, since late 2003, when will the Iraqis stand up so we can stand down? The Muslim Middle East is at a very interesting crossroads. The men and women who want to bring the Muslim Middle East forward into the 21st century are fighting against the men and women who want to bring the Muslim Middle East back into the 7th century. For decades, almost a century, the rest of the world didn't really care who won, as long as we got the oil. See, e.g., China, which is perfectly willing to opportunistically support whichever group appears to have the upper hand at any given moment, which, of course, means every group, because it changes from day to day. It's true, the US is sticking its neck out supporting the forces of modernity against the forces of antiquity, democracy against autocracy and dictatorship, but it's the right thing to do.