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I agree that 44,000 less LBS. of poisonous gas is a better thing for the world, but i'm not sure if we have yet acheived a net positive as far as world safety goes. Not that it really matters. Safety is one of those things we can pretend to know about but can never prove. It is really easy to say that we are safer now than before because whether we actually are or not is impossible to measure. That being said, i wonder how much safer the people of madrid feel.
I also haven't seen any direct evidence that iraq was the cause of libya's coming around. I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem like america is in a position, militarily or politically, to undertake another invasion. Why should they feel threatened? I think i'll probably be less skeptical when qadaffi directly attributes his change of heart to the invasion of iraq. Until then, it just seems like prowar spin to me.
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