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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Sometimes you are drawing a distinction between the two and sometimes the one is part of the other.
Look, there's no question that Iraq is going to have a huge effect on the so-called war on terror. That's not looking like a good thing.
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I know math is hard, but think of it as a venn diagram. The WOT is the big circle and Iraq is a circle subsumed within it.
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The accounts I've see suggest that those elections will leave the country far short of anything that could fairly be called "democracy." But it's important to the Bush folks that we hold the elections before November, odd as that may seem.
For someone who is so offended when Kerry appears to introduce politics into his policy statements, you are incredibly resistant to the notion that the Bush folks subordinate foreign policy to their political needs. And yet that is exactly what seems to be happening with the Afghan elections.
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From what I've read, over 7.5 million people will vote in the elections. Moving from a totalitarian state to a democracy or quasi democracy does not happen overnight, as much as the DEMs would like us to believe. You must be PATIENT.
As for the politics of this, the election date has been blessed by the UN, which I'm told by many on this board, at gives it legitimacy.
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Just so long as you understand that the sacrifices we make in our Russia policy are one more set of costs of invading Iraq.
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No, the sacrifices we make in our Russia policy are one of the costs of the WOT. We would be taking the same tact had we never invaded Iraq.
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