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OT: roni

We could have contained Iraq at a much lower cost than invading it, giving us far more resources to deal with Afghanistan and terrorism, but the US did not go that route.

There has been too much done during this administration that has not made good sense that I hesitate to say what is likely or not likely.

One would hope that they've learned something from Iraq and Afghanistan (where, apparently the Taliban is not quite defeated and is staging a comeback insurgency -- it is possible we will lose both wars now, even though we "won" them militarily.

My point was that discussions about the Israelis bombing Iran neglect certain harsh realities and would be about as unthinkable (and ineffective) as comtemplating S. Korea bombing N. Korea's nuke facilities.

Iran is a big problem, but it won't disappear with wishful thinking about an Israeli bombing raid that can't/won't happen. It may require building an actual international diplomatic response, backed with a threat of truly international action involving ALL of the major players.

Just rented Lord of War and liked the little tidbit at the end (of an otherwise too-long movie) where it presented the nugget that the world's largest arms sellers are the US, Britain, Russia, China and France -- who, coincidentally, are the only 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Jim
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