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The Moxie Nerve Food Tonic
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: right behind you
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Apr 11th, 2004, 11:33 AM
I don't think we're morally insensitive, just dense. Jockying for power in a power vaccuum? Dangerous political factioning in a tribal multi ethnic country ruled by a dictatorship for years? Who could have forseen it?!?
The main reason we're up shit creek now is we had zero coherent stratgey beyond toppling Sadaam. This administration refused to even concider all the reasons Bush Elder decided NOT to occupy iraq, preferring the basurd idea that we'd be welcomed with flowers by a unified Iraq.
We don't have to be morally repugnant. We're the occupying power. We haven't restored order, we aren't keeping people safe, and historically, most people aren't terribly keen on their occupiers in the best of circumstances. These are not the best of circumstances. It's a really, really tough set of circumstances.
Here's what I expect from our leadership when approching a really, really tough set of circumstances.
1.) See if it's absolutely neccesary.
2.) Weigh your countries other needs and make a comparison so you can determine where your resources are most wisely spent.
3.) If you still have to engage the really really difficult set of circumstances, make a plan that hs contingencies. If your first plan doesn't work, if the things you think will happen turn out diffferently, what will you do?
I think we've failed miserably on all three of thse steps. That doesn't mean I thinkl we're getting what we deserve, and it doesn't mean I think religous fanatics are right and we are the great Satan. I think we are a perfectly lovely country doing an absolutely terrible job in a really rfeally difficult situation and making a mess which will bite us in the ass for generations, but only when it's not too busy biting us in the thorat.
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