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I think it would be perfectly appropriate to have this discussion just as soon as al Qaida and its fellow travellers are no longer able to function - or breathe. The U.S. learned absolutely nothing from the failures of the French and the British in the Middle East, continued to act in a completely self-serving way throughout the cold war and since, which poured fuel on a fire that we didn't start - and most likely won't be able to completely put out anyway. I think attempting to "negotiate" a peaceful settlement with Sadam or al Qaida - they are very different, regardless of the sales job little Georgie has done on the American people - is akin to Chamberlain's negotiations with Hitler in 1938.
That being said - I think that anyone who dismisses the opinion of an entire continent full of people who will be affected by our decisions - perhaps more profoundly than we are - is just about as uninformed (spelled "s-t-u-p-i-d") as the pseudo-intellectual assumption that we "deserved" this. The easiest way to CEASE to be a superpower is to act like one. We had better act like the civilized nation we claim to be, take our case to the Congress, to the country, and to the world ...
and then toast the mother fuckers.
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