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To: John Carragher who wrote (778)	2/22/2007 2:53:19 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

John; Thanks for the reply - you have a lot of really good questions, and to assume anyone has the answers would be wrong. But here's what I think; Why Afghanistan and not Iraq; Afghanistan for the most part was not a functioning society. It allowed (wasn't allowed in Iraq) the formations of terror organizations - specificly al quida. We needed to go into Afghanistan and set up a fuctionng government that could have been an example to the rest of the Muslim world of the good things from the developed world. We needed to go in as a group - which we did. I completely supported the Bush effort here. He was doing great as the world was united by and with him. .....Then like a little boy unwilling to finish his school project he ran off to Iraq. The mistake is not so much what happened in Iraq, although that indeed has been a disastour, the real evil of wondering off to Iraq before Afghanistan was finished was that then we lost the moral highground. We also lost the support of the rest of the world - which is increasingly becoming impatient in Afghanistan........Another aspect of the stupidity of wandering off into Iraq was that we haven't even yet punished those responsible for 9-11!! How crazy is that? The most powerful country the world has ever seen and we can't even dig out a little band of "evil doers". Pathetic!