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On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:43:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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Can you put an actual number or range of number on your "little or no
cost
to us" assertion.

You can help. How many pilots did we lose during the period when we were
enforcing the no-fly zone?
The problem was how many muslin civilians we were killing. That came
home to bite us on 9-11. "Death from the air" with no danger to us got
turned back on us by Islam. We can sit here and say 6 billion muslims
spread around the 3d world don't mean much and there is nothing they
can do to us but a wise person knows that isn't true. They have TV too
and they see our air power is simply bullying the weak.

It is signifcant that we had the same amount of support for the no fly
zones from our european allies when Clinton lerft office as we do for
the war now. Most of europe think it is folly to screw with these
crazy SOBs. It is pretty much just us and the brits.

This is all true. It's interesting, though, that some here can create a
house of cards in their minds which justifies sending our kids over there
because of misplaced valor.