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To: RMF who wrote (336788)	5/8/2007 1:36:40 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1576113

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". What if we put 20k troops on the border of Kurdistan and "Old Iraq". Then it starts to look a lot like the resolution to the Korean War. Kurdistan becomes a prosperous normal US ally (South Korea) and "Old Iraq" descnds into a chaotic mess (North Korea). The main difference is that "Old Iraq" has all that oil, and I guess a bit of the old sectarian violence.

To: RMF who wrote (336788)	5/8/2007 8:12:05 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576113

"I think it's more complex than just saying "we'll bring our boys home and everything will be all right"." Of course it is. We've created a huge mess by invading the place. The first step in correcting it is to GET OUT. There is no military solution by us for an Iraqi civil war.

To: RMF who wrote (336788)	5/8/2007 6:17:41 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576113

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 things will turn out in Iraq the way they are supposed to turn out and there is little we can do to change the outcome. The issues and the tensions in Iraq are millennium old. Four years of US involvement is a blip on that timeline. The Iraqis will fight it out with or without our presense.