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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) "Mess" is subjective term. As Club said, all of the good is being buried. You see "mess". I see political gamesmanship and progress.
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As I said, most of the Titanic was well built, and most of it is intact on the floor of the North Atlantic.
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2) "Waste" is a term that is not yet ripe. Not to sound grandiose, but neither Germany and Japan were economic powerhouses one year after a war. The "jury is still Waaaay out" on this.
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Things may still go well. Let's hope they do. Fallujah and Najaf are big signs of trouble, though.
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3) "Less Safe"? Perhaps time and tide has lessened the fear, but this guy who was watching the burning WTC from Church Street on 9/11 is not nearly as spooked by low flying helicopters as I was a year ago.
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I'm not going to say that being in SF on 9/11 was the same, but I'm bothered less by driving across the Golden Gate Bridge now than I was on 9/12. Nevertheless, it looks to me like we have squandered tremendous resources in Iraq and have only made ourselves less safe. Saddam Hussein did not blow up the WTC, and what we have done in Iraq is strengthening those who did.
