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In reply to the discussion: From the beginning, I was against the Iraq War. Most people on this board probably share this view... [View all]Bucky
(53,986 posts)in reluctant allies, in veteran hospitals, in Libyan riots and Algerian hostage crises, in Yemeni mailbomb plots and a far stronger al-Qaeda presense in Africa and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. By validating the paranoia of a dozen insane fundamentalist clerics, we've provided them with thousands of deluded followers.
In the middle of the 2004 election, I predicted on these boards that we'd spend most of the rest of this century cleaning up the mess that Bush and the neocons did in international relations and to America's reputation. We have only started that work. As seen in Libya, we still get two new fires for every fire we stamp out. We won't perceive any progress until we get that down to a 1:1 old fire to new fire ratio. That'll be a long time coming.