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To: Dale Baker who wrote (39386)	7/10/2007 1:45:56 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541851

``No lasting political settlement can grow out of U.S. withdrawal,'' McCain said. ``I know that senators are tired of this war,'' he said. ``We cannot let fatigue dictate our policies.'' lol.... instead we should let stupidity dictate our policies. A ridiculous faith in the power of the military to win a war against a country that is foreign to us in almost every way, where large numbers of people in that country have good reasons to have grudges against us, where large numbers of people in that country have good reasons to fear and/or hate large numbers of other people in the country, where governments and people in each of the neighboring countries could easily get involved for any of several reasons, and in a region where there has seen a sudden influx of cash that is ready and willing to find a home supporting and buying weapons for the different factions that hate each other. And the military is supposed to win this war tiptoeing around said country, not fighting it as a total war, not even knowing exactly who to fight at any given time--a place where they are expected to fight Sunni insurgents one day, then arm the same fighters another day to fight yet another faction. If it didn't matter how many people in Iraq were killed and who they were, if they could all be presumed to be the "enemy," then the military could win this thing in a couple of months. That is the only way the analogy to WWII that supporters love to make could work. But it matters. And so it shouldn't have been done. But McCain says, "No lasting political settlement can grow out of U.S. withdrawal." What an idiot....