[extropy-chat] 'a process of non-thinking called faith' 2 (2)

[Al Brooks]

 Okay, the Iraq invasion was a mistake and a failure but now the task is for the Allies to extricate in a way that avoids turning Iraq into another Cambodia.
  Let's look at the outlook for the war as a whole: it will continue for decades as we are attempting to impose our commercial Western values on the other side, the other side is attempting to impose their extreme authoritarian (or totalist) Islamic values on us-- which makes it irreconcilable. I give two cheers for the Allied side because the other side wants to kill by direct, political, means while our side wants to kill by indirect, economic, means. That's my judgment call. You have your own call.
  You don't think intellectuals in college towns and so forth know where to go from here with such an intractable situation, do you? I don't know what to do and don't think any of you po' fessors and po' fessionals know what to do either. Second guessing the fumbles the Bush administration has made since the Iraq war planning-stage doesn't help much; gloating about it doesn't comfort civilians in Iraq; no aspect of this hideous, ominous WWIII ought to be gloated over. 
   
   
      Yes.  Most don't have the stomach to admit we had no legitimate reason to invade Iraq, had no idea of what we were getting into and have no business remaining there.   Most haven't the stomach to apologize profusely, pay some reparations and ask the UN to clean up the mess to the extent it can be cleaned up.  

          


- samantha
 
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