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To: tejek who wrote (348278)	8/30/2007 6:03:43 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573920

In what "strategic sense" do we lose? In quite a few senses. 1 - Iraq becomes a big haven for anti-US terrorists. 2 - We destroy our credibility. Anyone who might consider supporting us in some future war will think he shouldn't do it, because the US will abandon him after awhile. 3 - We give the jihadis reason to think they have won, and reason to believe that if they are patient and can kill enough Americans we will never stick up to them. More importantly we give reason to potential jihadis to believe this and to admire the jihadis for having defeated the US. 4 - We give up the gains we have recently been making against the jihadis in Iraq.