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Al Brooks wrote:<br>
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<div> 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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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. </div>
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It's not a war, at least not our war. Why make it worse? Their civil war
is none of our business. We don't need the oil. We have hydrogen. The
Grand Oil Party has overstayed it's welcome. Immediate withdrawal is the
obvious course when your hand is on a hot burner. This is not rocket science!
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