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I didn't edit his post, I cleaned up the thread by deleting his apology for a double post.
This isn't GW I, II and the next one won't be III. This is Gulf War the Saga continues since the time of Christ. We are the newcomers. The only way, IMO, to avoid the next round is a complete switch to alternative fuel so we don't care like we didn't before we needed oil to begin with.
IMO, it doesn't matter when we turn the country over, now, next year or next decade. As soon as we do, they'll be ready. These people are patient. We're not.
Again, IMO, you could make Iraq an exact model of Vermont, infrastructure and all. As soon as we hand it over and leave, they will tear it all down and make it an Islamic fundalmentalist state.
Understanding that, I think you are swimming against the tide by hoping "if we build it, they will come."
1/4 want a Kurdish state. 1/3 want a secular state and half want Sharia and have the support of every fanatic in that part of the world and are willing to bomb women and children into oblivion to get it. Who's going to win?
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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