Too bad you don't respond where it matters:
Posted by: goodluck
In reply to: Stowboat who wrote msg# 9674 Date:3/8/2003 12:02:11 AM
Post #of 9685
Why don't you read the article? Get to the end. There are some nice quotes there from two Republicans:
<<As one savvy official observed, occupying Baghdad comes at an "unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships." Another expert put it this way: "We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
Those comments may overemphasize the risks, but they are from top-notch analysts whose judgments I respect. The first comment was made by Colin Powell in a Foreign Affairs essay in 1992; the second is in "A World Transformed," a 1998 book by the first President Bush.>>
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
"Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty for Security Deserve Neither." -Benjamin Franklin
