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nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
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lchic
- 11:14am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17269 of 17281) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
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cantabb
- 11:16am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
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rshow55 - 10:46am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17261 of 17268)
Cantabb missed something, and asks
A copy of what ? Your corpus CD ? -
A one hour CNN videotape
Something you never made clear or specified ?
lchic
- 11:17am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17271 of 17281) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
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lchic
- 11:20am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17272 of 17281) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
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lchic
- 11:26am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17273 of 17281) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
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Roman [Pragmatist]
Iraq was a US mistake 9/12/2003 10:14:46 PM
I believe it was a mistake for the US to go to war in Iraq.
The country did not pose any security threat and the secular
Baathist regime, as brutal as it was, in fact suppressed
radical Islamic movements. Even if Iraq did have WMD (and I
actually believed the USA and the UK that it really did and
still opposed the war), it had no incentives of using them
against the US and would not pass them on to Islamic
terrorists with whom it had poor relations.
Invasion of Iraq has:-
1) Inflamed the world opinion to extreme anti-Americanism.
It is true that much of the world was anti-American to begin
with, but now this has reached extreme levels. In fact, much
of the US population (especially on the left, but some also on
the right) was also very opposed to the war and could
ironically also be described as anti-American.
2) Entangled the US in a Middle Eastern Islamic country for
a very long time. This will be a massive drain on US economic
resources at a time when your budget deficit is at a record
high. It will also overstretch your armed forces, which will
lead to numerous problems. On top of that, it will put a
psychological strain on the American people due to both the
casualties among US troops and the international isolation
that the US has imposed on itself through this war.
3) The US is very quickly going to find out that people are
in general ungrateful. While it is true that Saddam Hussein
was a brutal dictator and Iraqi people have indeed been
liberated by the US invasion, it will quickly become apparent
that people have a short memory. Cultural ties with other
US-hating Muslim nations will prevail and Iraqi's will begin
opposing the US occupation en-masse. This is already happening
to some extent, but is likely to get much worse.
4) The war led to a rift with the European allies. This was
not entirely the US fault. The French, for example, behaved
despicably. It is one thing to oppose a war and hence not
participate in it (Germany did this...), but it is yet another
to actively lobby other countries to stand against the
invasion as France did. What I would have advocated for Europe
to do was to protest the war mildly, but let the US get on
with it if it was determined to do so, as it clearly was...
Americans are our allies after all, so the least we can do is
not stand in their way
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