LowlyPropCapt
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You answered your own question in a sense. But I have to say, having been there, that if you believe CNN, MSNBC, etc that everyone there wants us out, you'll buy anything. Time and again someone in this world is always crying for us to intervene, and (sometimes foolishly) we do. And then when the resistance begins, the citizenry of the USA cries to quit like a bunch of Frenchman.
I used to be somewhat of an isolationist, but after seeing things and reading much history, I have changed postions. I'm not saying we should go everywhere and "covert the world to democracy", but we shouldn't wait until it's too late again. Like we did in WWI, WWII, and almost in Cuba.
You and I may disagree on the advisability of the initial invasion of Iraq, but it seems we would agree on the importance of staying and finishing the work that we began. It is important to remember that, like yourself, Islamic terrorists are also students of history. They learned thier most important lessons from painful events in America's history: Vietnam, the bombing of the Marine Barraks in Beruit, the Army Rangers in Somolia. If you bloody America's nose, they will cut and run. If we were to do this agian, not only would we be ensuring that Iraq would become a Islamo-fascist puppet of Iran, but we would again demonstrate that America is impotent abroad.
Don't think our future potential enemies, ones who really do pose a danger to our national security, aren't watching. What we do in Iraq has far reaching security implications.
Like the Arab/Persian world, we too have an intractable delema on our hands. Make some sense out of the chaos in Iraq at the cost of much blood and treasure? Or run away, and hope that our intelligence is always right and what is left of our credibility and military might can protect us from harm? Either way we seem to lose something important
IMHO, anyway.
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