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Submitted by robert fusfeld (United States), Nov 12, 2006 at 11:12

we will all now be correct in our hindsight about the iraq failure. Our shortsightedness has blinded american foreign policy, not just in the middle east, but through se asia and the emerging alliance with muslim terrorists south of our border. please remember it was the republican president who allowed us to be beaten in lebanon, somalia, afghanistan. clinton sheepishly picked up the pieces and fell, like "W", to the forces of whimsy, intolerance, arrogance, power, and, that good ole american value: greed.

let us hope the democrats somehow recognize that western democracy is now threatened like no time since the nazis and communists. i do not know about you, Dr. Pipes, but the american people are in peril, more from within. the caliphate will receive assistance from the most unlikely ally: the american far right, religious freedom fighters. such is the banality of the holy q'uaran. the enemy of my enemy is my friend never sounded so appropriate. it will be very easy to domestically focus attention upon the minority everyone hates for this debacle. and, they could take it all the way back to the jungle war. and, ronnie reagan returned us to glory by battering 80 cubans on grenada and sending oliver north to the congress. now north is a super hero far right wing patriot with a public voice. . pretty amazin'.

and, all of this to maintain the bush fortune and marriage to the saudi'princes, including their loyal foil, usama bin laden and family. we hedged our bet that this iconoclastic bogey-man would keep the faithful patriotically stirred while we hide him out in some expensive resort. just think folks, the same technology pursuing the charismatic, romanticized "islamic" fanatics is now used to track sex predators. go figure.

so, how will we extricate ourselves from this disaster. there really is nothing in the lexicon to describe what we have done to ourselves. we won the cold war. right. is that the russians i here a comin'. or, the iranians.

stay tuned.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
creeping vines [1160 words]cassanoJan 6, 2007 23:2271923
Voltaire On Iraq [27 words]G.GlazerNov 26, 2006 23:4067439
No contradiction [37 words]OctavioNov 27, 2006 14:2067439
Get out of Iraq ASAP [19 words]OctavioNov 25, 2006 16:3167330
Strongman [180 words]Mitzi AlvinNov 24, 2006 15:0267195
Allawi?!! Been there done that. [116 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Francis BrookeNov 24, 2006 11:3367174
"Could a New Strongman Help?" [198 words]Johanna StephensNov 24, 2006 10:3967163
Perfection [83 words]Julian ZedNov 24, 2006 10:1967160
Why didn't Iraqis vote for Allawi? [34 words]Roger McKinneyNov 22, 2006 11:4766970
It's all about the Middle East [77 words]Mike GNov 18, 2006 08:0466491
Democracy and Iraq [388 words]VinodguptNov 16, 2006 14:5066339
Dodge City [184 words]JoeNov 16, 2006 14:4466337
Democracy? That is too optimistic [365 words]mike bitNov 15, 2006 21:5366267
Rethinking Iraq strategy [310 words]DennisNov 13, 2006 13:3766006
Power Share Will Resolve Conflict In Iraq [78 words]skmillerNov 13, 2006 10:5765990
How about a little responsibility... ? [29 words]MikeNov 13, 2006 03:3865972
iraq [336 words]robert fusfeldNov 12, 2006 11:1265918

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