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Old 02-07-2007, 03:17 PM   #157 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by powerclown
I haven't seen any argumentative evidence yet that the Iraq War was strategically or even morally unsound. Vietnam was handled less than ideally on the tactical level (show me the Perfect War), but fighting the spread of communism proved - historically - to be the right thing to do in the broader sense.
Strategically it was unsound because it created a stronger Iran and has placed US troops in the role of policemen in a sectarian civil war. Morally it was unsound because it unleashed that sectarian violence resulting in the death of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians and the disiplacement of more than 2 million more.

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For all the protesting and draft dodging the left indulged themselves in during 'Nam, can anyone say the fall of the Iron Curtain and defeat of communism was a bad thing for the world? In the same way, does anyone believe that fighting the spread of terrorism is wrong?
The Iron Curtain fell and communism was defeated without a major war in Europe. It came about as much as a result of an implosion from within and our support for internal democratic movements in eastern europe as from any military actions (other than our troop presence in Germany and the broad stategic MAD policy). I give as much credit to Gorbachev (policies of glasnost and peristroika), Lech Welesa and the laboor movement in Poland, Vaclev Havel and the "intellectuals" in Czech and a vocal anti-communist Pope as I do Reagan (the great anti-communist crusader given far to much credit by some)

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Are we saying the concept of GWOT is sound, but the methods are wrong? Are we expressing our disapproval over how the GWOT has been fought, or is the problem the GWOT itself? Something else?
The cocept of a GWOT may be sound, but the practice of justifying every foreign policy action on that concept is not. The American people arent buying it, many of our allies are not supportive, and it has created more empathy among the Muslim nations for those who strike against the US and ultimately has created more terrorists.
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