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[James Atticus Bowden]

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The multiple conflicts in Iraq are different from the bipolar nation-state Cold War conflict = WW III. Iraq is one campaign in a larger WW IV = World War Against Islamists.

The challenge is to define 'victory' in Iraq. I have my ideas and have written about them since 2003 - including one written during the invasion called 'The Long Hard Peace'.

Does President Bush's Wilsonian rhetoric mean victory is representative democracy with the Rule of Law and individual freedoms like we won in 1783 - and put in writing for the second time in 1787?

[David]

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Kat,

I'm sure you're aware of the reservations I held when the Iraq adventure began, and of the views I hold of the disasterous Bremmer and all that followed his misadministration, BUT I am foursquare in agreement that having begun the task, leaving the fledgling Iraqi government with "20 bullets and two hand grenades" (the very model of CREATING failure, as we ought to well know by now since it's exactly what the defeatocrats did to intentionally deliver Sounth Vietnam to a defeated North Vietnam *sigh*) is not only dishonorable but stupid. It would confirm in the eyes of America's enemies AND in the eyes of past and potential allies that we HAVE NO RESOLVE, NO HONOR.

Within no longer than a few short years, it would result in SERIOUS and potentially devastating WMD attacks upon U.S. soil that would make 9/11 pale in comparison.

It would convince, with rock solid conviction, our allies that allying with the U.S. is a prescription for betrayal.

And it could concievably spell the end of not just the Republic but the U.S. in any form.

It really is that serious.

While I seriously disagree with the administrations prescription for victory in the region called Iraq (Iraq is a geopolitical fiction: there is no national identity; there are only tribal and religious/cultic/ethinic identities in the region and, IMO, none of the tribal/religious/ethinic identities in the region are worth shedding one drop of American blood, in and of themselves, save for the Kurds--but that's my opinion), while I disagree with the administration's strategy and even tactics, the opposition's strategy (and by that I mean the unholy alliance of Islam and Demoncrats) is disaster for the U.S and for Western Civilization as a whole.

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.” - James Burnham

(By "Liberalism" Burnham of course meant that which has gone by the name for the past 40-50 years or so, not classical liberalism which simply is willing to stand for freedom and liberty for all in thr marketplace of ideas and for personal rights--including personal property rights--as well)

[Angel]

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So true Kat..!..why dont libs grasp the danger of appeasement and withdrawal!!
Have a blessed Sunday my friend! :)