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Thanks Mark
Don — (archived)

I apperciate your focussing on content rather than personalities.

I have used the term "quagmire" to describe to potential conditions we are heading into with "post-war" Iraq. In a country of 22 million souls, 60% of whom are Shia islamists, while most of the remainder are Baa'th islamists, there will be lots of continue opportuntiies to make Jerusalem look like Disneyland. Hopefully this will not be the case, but I fear that many more American lives will be lost while we are attempting reconstruct the country. I realize that the term evokes memories of Vietnam, and while Iraq is nothing like Vietnam, I use the term "quagmire" precisely because it does remind us of the risk of losing American lives. If the use of this rhetoric cause folks to pay closer attention to these risks, so be it.

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