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Originally posted by Colin
Something bad or unexpected or even *gasp* a mistake in judgement will always occur in war. This military campaign is more remarkable for the bad things that didn't happen than the bad things that did.
I'm glad we're not talking about 40,000 civilian deaths or a million Iraqi refugees at the Jordan border today. I'm glad we're not talking about thousands of American soldiers that died in Urban combat. I'm glad we're not talking about South-Eastern Iraq being on fire for the next six months. I'm glad hundreds of Jordanians, Kuwaitis and Israelis weren't killed by Iraqi missiles. I'm glad US special forces secured dams
before they could be blown.
If you're against a war, there will ALWAYS be something that goes wrong. It's a near impossibility that there won't be. If there wasn't a museum robbery to discuss, it would be something else. As much as this is a loss to academia - and of course it's a matter of private opinion - most of the world would be much more upset at one million Iraqi refugees streaming towards the Jordanian border.
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i haven't been against the war, i have always been against how it was handled by both the states and the UN.