--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The overwhelming reason we are there today is to > create a democracy in a region that is traditionally held by dictators or > absolute monarchies that have a reason to suppress their people and keep them > ignorant and in poverty so as to be able to maintain their own power.
Uh, that's not how it was billed. This leads > to anger, hostility and hopelessness which gives rise to terrorism. When a > people can have more stake in their own future via a government they control > through elections they are far less likely to want to make war on others so they > can focus on developing their own country and thus less likely to get > involved in supporting terrorism. Uh, yea. That's not what that recent report said. If we succeed, sure, we'll be better off. But right now, it's having the opposite effect. At 100 bil/yr. and all those lives, on both sides. To you it's worth it. The State Department was all for maintaining the > status quo which would only perpetuated the current state in the middle east. Yea, the military guys supported the go slow approach. The civilians with no skin in the game were all gung ho. lurk > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
