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Originally Posted by Azure
Exactly Daradon.
And it haunted them because they ran in, messed everything up, and ran back out without fixing it.
Now they ran into Iraq, but haven't ran out yet, so technically they ARE trying to fix it.
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Technically, that's true. I think the problem is, as is usual in American politics, that the public is only being given two choices.
1. Stay the course. Bush has offered no indication that there's a major strategic transformation in the works. In the meantime, 80 servicemen and women have been killed in this month alone--bringing total casualties to over 3,200.
2. Pull out according to an arbitrary date, or by arbitrary benchmarks of "success." Clearly, this is an idiotic idea. As many people have said, the U.S. has implicated itself deeply, for better or for worse, in this sand trap of a war.
We can all agree that what happened was bad, and that the whole thing has been a disaster from beginning to end. But the question now should not be "how can we make our opponents suffer?" or "how can we extricate ourselves most quickly?" It should be "What can we do to improve the lives of Iraqis right now, given the situation on the ground? What can we do to create a stable, democratic, Iraq?"
Just seems like there's more politics than policy going on right now.