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Originally posted by wig@Mar 20 2003, 06:15 PM
Success means a win for the war on terror.
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Not so sure I agree wig. Success in this case means that Americans die to prove a point. Terrorists are not going to go away because we whip Saddams ass, provided we do and in some reasonable amount of time. If the Iraqi's do not use some form of chemical or biological weapons in this war then world opinion will swing even further against the US. And unfortunately in this day of global economics the last thing we as a country need is to be hindered in our ability to do business and to drag a large portion of the world economy down that is still pinned to ours.
You are dealing with a mindset, in these Muslim fundamentalists, that is more related to the Saracen wars or the Crusades, than you are dealing with a people that recognizes and realizes that this is the 21st century.
Given that their deaths elevate their status in life, why on earth would they care how many of their brethren we kill? That only makes them hungry and jealous for what their fallen kin have supposedly gone on to...
And after all that said, I'm off to watch the Duke game
