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Originally posted by Adder
I'll give you a topic:
In the long run, the biggest cost of Bush's fiasco in Iraq may be that it made military option impossible in Iran, a country that actually has a nuclear program.
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Maybe.
Or that it has strengthened Iran by replacing an enemy with an ally.
Or that it has pretty much destroyed US military credibility worldwide. If Bush or Rummy said that we were going to make a preemptive strike at, say, Togo, and it would be over in a few weeks, would you believe it?
Or that it has pissed away so much of our goodwill with governments and populations of countries that are important to fighting the real enemy (y'know, the one Bush tried to link to Iraq).
Everyone is talking about Hezbollah's victory in fighting Israel to a standstill. Haven't al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Mahdi Army done the same thing to the much more powerful US?
