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Originally Posted by roachboy
the parallel to world war 2 is totally inappropriate. first because the war in iraq is not over. second because of everything else about the analogy.
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I think the comparison is appropriate in the sense that many people viewed the situation in Europe immediately after WW2 as dismal and worse than prior to the start of the war.
We hear plenty of comparisons to Vietnam (quagmire!), are those inappropriate too?
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Originally Posted by roachboy
the analogy to a patient on the operating table at least has the virtue of being funny. for some reason, it made me think of the game "operation"
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I love that game.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i do not think that assessing the situation in iraq need come down to yet anther occasion for rehearsing your basic relation to the war itself....if you follow powerclowns argument out, it would mean that the view that the war is deepening follows from a hostile disposition toward the fact of the war rather than from looking at available information.
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My post did not rest on my support (or lack thereof) for the war. Nowhere in my post did I express either sentiment.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i might agree that some kind of democratization is a desirable goal for countries in the region in general terms (the states could use more democracy as well, for that matter), but nothing about the argument would lead one to conclude that the bush project is either legitimate in itself or that it advances that general cause.
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I respectfully disagree. I think that the recent elections in Afghanistan, and the fact that Iraq will be holding elections this month is pretty clear evidence that the "bush project" does advance the cause of democracy.
Again, history will judge.