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   From: ClaviusFairAndBalanced@cablespeed.com   
      
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   > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:37:55 GMT, "Christopher Helms"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Anyway, by degrees I slowly realized that the world is nowhere near as   
   > >simple as conservatives would have us believe. It would be great if every   
   > >problem could be solved with either a tax cut or a smart bomb. I wish the   
   > >world was like that and maybe that will to believe is what makes Rush, Fox   
   > >News etc. so popular. Maybe the entire conservative movement is some sort of   
   > >a collective prayer or the expression of a desire to return to a world that   
   > >simply doesn't exist anymore, assuming it ever really did.   
   >   
   >   
   > I'm impressed. Seriously.  I wish more conservatives (and liberals)   
   > understood this.   
   >   
   > Dogma generally and Conservatism specifically is about simple answers   
   > so you don't have to worry or think.   But simple answers can get you   
   > into complex messes. And they won't get you out. Iraq is a fine   
   > example of that. No welcoming parades. No oil paying for everything. A   
   > nascent civil war, threatening to destabilize the entire region,   
   > allienating our allies, and a great risk that we've set up the next   
   > fundamentalist Shia state. And that's just for starters.   
      
   Follow that up with the inevitable civil war and general violence and   
   instability for at least a generation.  But at least we get a place to park our   
   tanks.   
      
   Jim   
      
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