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

[Keith Henson]

At 10:55 AM 11/24/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>  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.

It's not hard, but the only solution I know of is *mad*.

>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.

I know.

Swap the population out.

The *mess* is really the responsibility of the US.  Therefore we should 
transport the whole of the population to Texas and replace them with Texans.

Not a big logistics deal, take a few months.

Long range consequences might be really strange though.

Keith

>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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