Reality on the Ground It's not "lost," but we could make it be. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzdhYThiZjFkMDU2MWJmNzRmNDc1ODVjNzI3YjY0N2Y=
Here's two snippets: Al Qaeda fears America's strategic position in the region. They know they cannot defeat us in any pitched battle. And they know their only chance is to defeat us by fomenting ethnic and religious hatreds in Iraq thus creating enough bloody chaos as to make the conflict appear unmanageable in the eyes of the American public. .... As part of that misinformation campaign, the Left has been successful in dehumanizing ordinary Iraqis, which to me defies logic because on the one hand, they'll argue that Iraqis (supposedly incapable of ever governing themselves or stopping the sectarian violence) are not worth the blood of American GIs, yet on the hand other they'll rail against the Bush administration for all the Iraqis who have been killed since the invasion in 2003. On 5/15/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tBone wrote: > > What is the foreign policy we are currently pursuing? Stability and > > security. > > All fair points ... but, overlooking the criminally negligent lack of > preparedness, stability and security is not a foreign policy. > > The policy question is what, if any, involvement should we have in > Iraq and why? That's the "what" and "why", then there's the "how" and > how to we pay for it. None of this has been budgeted for nor was > foreseen (at least by Bush). Remember Wolfy telling everyone that oil > would pay for it? > > Further, if Iraqi stability and security are goals of the unstated > foreign policy, what is the timeline and what are the performance > metrics, projected costs, and, most importantly, ROI? And how does > that business case compare with the opportunity costs (NPV) of doing > nothing? > > Because I'd be willing to bet that if you did the analysis it says that: > > 1.) We shouldn't have gone in the first place, > 2.) For every year we are there, we should've left the year before, and > 3.) "Iraq" is not cohesive country and, therefore, the entire premise is > flawed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234737 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
