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Old 11-15-2003, 07:56 AM   #5
Undertoad
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The thing you don't know, tw, and can't know, is whether the entire Iraq gambit is really just setting the chess board up for the next move. Maybe Iraq sets free enough of the world's oil that the rest of the region can now be addressed properly. (Oil shipments are close to prewar levels.) Maybe Muslim Brotherhood is in the targets, maybe not. Maybe upsetting the apple cart and causing the region to go unstable is part of the approach.

If al Qaeda is not a threat any longer - sure, maybe another one of the alphabet soup non-governmental radical Islamic organizations is the one that brings all the hardliners out to get their 72 virgins. There are plenty of them. (Some we are more familiar with - Hamas, Hezbollah - and some we are less. We know what they want though.)

Maybe the administration doesn't admit it up front because to do so would be destructive to the overall mission. Maybe that's why the war on terror is described in such loose terms and the enemy is not really described directly.

You don't know, and your conceit that you think you DO know is annoying.
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