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

[Samantha Atkins]

We royally fscked it up to the point where there isn't a damn thing  
that we (US) can do that will make it better except to get out of the  
way and give some aid from a distance.  Our reputation has been made  
and it isn't good at all in those parts.  Our continued presence is  
too much part of the problem.  As for Bush calling him a moron would  
be being far too kind.  This is the most patently evil administration  
we have had in at least half a century.  They deserve execution for  
high treason against the American people and their oath of office.

- samantha

On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Al Brooks 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.
> 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.
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