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I am just amazed that with all the information we have today and quick access to it that people are so uninformed and have a limited "right now" view on things.
The war in Iraq is a create example. In a bubble, the war in Iraq does look like a quagmire and a disater or a mistake. Take it in context with other previous wars and it is no differnt, if not amazingly better.
In WWII we had a major presence in Germany for at least 8 years after Hitler fell and took many years to rebuild the country. The same thing for Japan. Everyone said that democracy would be impossible in these countries and there were insurgients that kept fighting well after the war was over. The same is true for Iraq.
First off, the take over of the country took 3 weeks and with minimal causulties to our forces. One year later, there was a interim government in place, and 6 months after that there will be elections.
It is horrible that people are getting killed, but no more than get killed every day in California due to gang violence. These reconstructions do not take place over night, just like they didn't in WWII, which almost everyone considers a major success even though we lost tens of thousands of American troops.
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