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Originally posted by wig@Apr 19 2004, 02:43 PM
PD's question is too broad.
What does "won" mean and for whom?
If war never produced anything for the prosecutor, there would be no war.
Somebody, somewhere is winning something!
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I really don't think so, Wig. Mike has stated that what he believes the objectives are in Iraq to be are securing the supply of oil and establishing a base for future operations against other states that may support terror.
Mike is advocating an old-fashioned imperialsitic war, and wrapping it up in the war on terror to describe it as something new doesn't change that fact. I am simply asking him to provide an example in the 20th century where an imperialistic war was successful.
The folks who were defeated in World War II were the imperialists - so that can't be used as an example anyway.