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To: bentway who wrote (336785)	5/8/2007 1:31:51 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576619

Chris, I think there's a big difference between the Korean War and the Iraq War. Pulling out of Korea while still stationing 10's of thousands of troops on the border pretty much assured a future "stalemate" there. I never thought we should go into Iraq in the first place, but now that we've made such a MESS there, I don't think we can just pull out and expect things to turn out O.K. I think it's more complex than just saying "we'll bring our boys home and everything will be all right".

To: bentway who wrote (336785)	5/8/2007 6:12:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576619

In Grant’s case, the frontier was ablaze, and it was widely assumed that the general-in-chief who had bested Robert E. Lee would make quick work of the Plains Indians who were slowing the nation’s westward expansion. That bet was misplaced. Grant admired the integrity and lifestyle of Native Americans and ordered an end to the slaughter. He reined in Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan (who seemed bent on annihilation), dispatched a brace of “humanitarian generals” to the West, provided aid and comfort to entice the tribes onto reservations, and replaced corrupt Indian agents with Quakers. “Grant’s peace policy” – as it is called by historians – brought peace to Great Plains without racial genocide. Hear! Hear!