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On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:18:42 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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I think the bottom line is the whole crusade in Afghanistan was a
wasted effort. As soon as we leave things will go back to the way they
were.

I'm not sure that would be a good thing, given that's where 9/11 was
hatched.

I am not even convinced Saddam was the problem for us that we made him
out to be. If this was really supposed to be about oil it was really
silly. Saddam would have been very happy to sell us cheap oil.

He was a problem, but he was contained... not perfectly, but well enough
that he wasn't much of a threat.


Iraq was all about Israel, as Iran is now.

I don't follow... Iraq wasn't really threatening Israel... not that Saddam
didn't want to, but he really wasn't dumb enough to try anything overt.


As for the debt and deficit, I don't see anyone doing anything serious
to fix it. Cutting entitlements or raising taxes are both politically
impossible right now. These "soak the rich" schemes are good press but
in the grand scheme of things the money raised is insignificant.

And, your solution is....

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Nom=de=Plume