I suspect...

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I suspect...

Donald — 4/8/2006 3:58:38 PM (archived)

...that the neocons truly believed that a war to remake Iraq would also remake the Middle East.

Its now clear that even before 9/11 the Bush administration has set in motion a plan to invade Iraq and dabble in a little nation-building. The WTC disaster threw those plans off-center, but Bush/Cheney and company managed to regroup.

Of course, the Iraq war is, indeed, remaking the Middle East. But not quite in the way the Bushies intended. We are going to be paying a terrific price for this incompetent misadventure for decades to come.

The neocons keep kidding themselves that things are getting better. But its clearly not. We are closer to chaos in the Middle East than ever before in modern history. What results from this mess is impossible to predict - or to control.

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An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 10:12:20 AM
- Kiddo... - R.L. - 4/9/2006 4:06:44 AM
  - re: Kiddo... - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 7:14:37 AM
    - More "Wow!" - Lindy - 4/9/2006 5:04:51 PM
      - re: More "Wow!" - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 9:41:32 PM
- I am driven to tears.... - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:35:10 PM
  - The fantasy... - Tom Brosz - 4/8/2006 9:05:02 PM
    - You're in fantasy land - Donald - 4/8/2006 9:16:52 PM
      - re: You're in fantasy land - corrected - DOnald - 4/8/2006 9:20:47 PM
        
        Oh, come now. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/9/2006 4:11:06 AM
        
        It always amazes me... - Donald - 4/9/2006 2:22:22 PM
        
        Oversimplification. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/10/2006 12:06:58 AM
        
        "Oversimplification of foreign affairs is for spectators and partisans" - Lindy - 4/10/2006 3:22:04 AM
        
        The Russians (& EU exploiters) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/10/2006 3:56:44 AM
        
        For what it's worth........ - Lindy - 4/12/2006 3:42:47 AM
        
        re: The Russians (& EU exploiters) - Lindy - 4/12/2006 3:34:05 AM
        
        You'll have to excuse me... - Donald - 4/8/2006 9:39:04 PM
  - How terribly kind of you................... - Publius - 4/8/2006 7:39:26 PM
    - re: How terribly kind of you................... - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 10:32:12 PM
      - "actually" no problem....................... - Publius - 4/9/2006 1:34:31 AM
        
        re: "actually" no problem....................... - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 3:00:01 AM
        
        For your questions on global warming try investigating Pascal's wager......... (n/t) - Publius - 4/9/2006 3:59:29 PM
        
        Pascal's wager is silly & shallow- you confirm my faith - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 10:18:13 PM
        
        No. Pascal's wager is pragmatic............. - Publius - 4/10/2006 6:02:26 PM
        
        re: Pascal's wager - Tom Brosz - 4/10/2006 8:39:35 PM
        
        the virtue of Pascal's wager........... - Publius - 4/11/2006 3:56:38 PM
        
        re: the virtue of Pascal's wager........... - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2006 9:30:20 PM
        
        Let me understand this............ - Publius - 4/11/2006 9:38:42 PM
        
        Kyoto is failing in those nations that accepted it. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2006 1:21:06 AM
        
        More fantasy - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2006 4:56:09 AM
  - re: I am driven to tears.... - Eric - 4/8/2006 3:29:37 PM
    - I suspect... - Donald - 4/8/2006 3:58:38 PM
- re: An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - Doug Ellison - 4/8/2006 10:14:39 AM
  - re: An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 6:35:31 PM
    - America gets the 20th century....arguably the 19th too... ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/9/2006 3:39:30 AM

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