"Richard Webb -> BOB KLAHN" <1:116/901> wrote in news:113
$CONTROVERSIAL@JamNNTPd:

 RW>> Indeed!  IT takes trained troops, it takes willpower, it
 RW>> takes building of infrastructure, the things we're failing
 RW>> to do in Afghanistan.

 BK>>  Don't forget, nationbuilding is not good. Nationbuilding is bad.
 BK>> Nationbuilding is the work of Satan. We know that because right
 BK>> wingers tell us so.

 RW> IT has its downside, I'd agree there, but something *must*
 RW> be done in that region, and the better thing to do is
 RW> provide the troops and resources necessary to do just that.
 RW> PEople who have a future that is other than bleak don't have as much
 RW> motivation to fight to the point of their own
 RW> destruction.

You forgot one factor.
Religious fanaticism.

You know who just returned to Iraq, to huzzahs and celebrations?

Al-Sadr.
Remember him?
The fundy Shiite cleric who was telling his bunch of merry mutants to
attack Americans in Iraq.

Like Rachel Maddow said, we now have West Iran.

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