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To: zamboz who wrote (21420)	8/19/2007 1:41:37 PM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 217885

"...bring the troops home while viewing the outcome as possible world war." The prospect of a world war is not contingent on the status of our troop deployment in Iraq. The damage that that boneheaded initiative has wrought is a fait accompli. The Bush Iraq strategy, to destroy the Saddam regime and use that as an excuse to somehow elect a fool who would maintain a suicidal reverse Robin Hood strategy for the American economy is a testament to the evil genius of Messrs Rove and Cheney. Bringing home the troops would merely be the common sense and humanitarian solution to what is nothing more than a sideshow to keep Americans from fully appreciating the monumental incompetence and malfeasance that currently manages our country. If there is to be a world war, and the instability for that may well be an unintended consequence of Bush's 2004 re-election strategy, it will occur whether we are still in Iraq or not. The force there has always been insufficient to accomplish what would have been necessary to achieve any sort of "victory" in Iraq. They are merely random targets for pissed off Iraqi's at this point. It is a crime against the troops to leave them so exposed for no recognizable reason.

To: zamboz who wrote (21420)	8/19/2007 7:40:09 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217885

Rick, It is nice to find that somebody agrees with me for a change. <grin> Either we shoulder the job of being "world policeman" forever or we stand aside and let the world go its own way. What I think would likely happen is that you would go back to a nuclear version of the multi-polar world that existed before the spectacular rise of the British Empire. You would have regional wars and probably some local nuclear exchanges but for the world this should be very survivable and also instructive. This would help break up dangerous concentrations of power and keep things diffuse and local. I think it would greatly help the environment and slow resource depletion. And to get this wonderful outcome all we have to do is walk away and allow chaos to reign. There is now longer an "Evil Empire" (and it surely was one in its day) so we no longer need to be the "global superpower". Let freedom ring. Slagle