T. S. O'Rama speculates on Amy's "Why Iraq? Why now?"
3) To fight terrorism. If you win the war, you now have a base right in the middle of that putrid nest of terrorism, the Middle East. You can set up an intelligence operation. You have a place to land planes and troops without getting Turkey's or Saudi Arabia's permission. In the best case scenerio, you have a democracy that might lead to other democracies.
Which reminds me of a quote by that tenacious fighter, General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, USMC: "We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."
You can find other great USMC quotes here and here.
Posted by billw at February 28, 2003 06:32 AMMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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