"NOYB" wrote in message
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If I had family that lived in NYC or Washington, DC, I'd worry that they'd
be killed by a terrorist attack. Unlike you, I believe that rebuilding
Iraq
into a Democracy, and maintaining military bases there as a deterrent (or
launching point) against other terrorist-sponsoring countries, will
ultimately make us safer in our own cities. In the 1940's, our country
felt
they had the moral authority to send young men to Europe to fight against
the Germans because they knew that what was happening over there would one
day affect us.



Sitting around idly while terrorists take pot shots at us is no way to
live.

That's what's going to continue to happen in Iraq, so get used to it.

You seem to think our desire to make Iraq into a democracy is the panacea
for solving the terrorist problem. Democracy only takes hold in countries
that desire it. Iraq isn't one of them. Once we're gone, they'll move
swiftly back to the tribal lifestyle.

This will be both a political and military failure in the end. Our efforts
to nation build will again be thwarted by the cultural forces that existed
long before we or the English attempted to bring civility to the region.

If we don't find a way to gracefully exit, Iraq will become America's
Chechnya.