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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (256741)	7/4/2008 10:04:16 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794009

OTOH, we're not worried about countries we have soundly defeated. Japan would fit fine in the "hearts and minds won" category. So would Germany, and perhaps even VietNam in many ways. The USSR and Russia were not decisively defeated, and remain capable of dirty tricks. Muslims may prove more resilient as a whole, but they haven't gotten their minds and hearts together enough to land a blow like 9/11 again. Bush-haters and current policy haters will never look better and smarter than they do right now. It's particularly easy to look smart to the average citizen who just wants the quick fix to all our problems, and not have to maintain the discipline needed for vigilance and victory. They believe bologna slogans like war for oil, vast right-wing conspiracy, enrich your oil buddies, etc. The simpler the slogan to remember, the better. It's seems just as easy for even further-removed overseas observers to take the "superior principled" simplistic populist solutions, like Obama finds easy to sell. Sober historians will look much kinder on Reagan and Bush for "winning" security for the US by actually winning rather than posing for peace to win elections. Being "popular" today may not look so good in the relatively near future.