Re: For Marines, a Frustrating Fight

From: Paul Burridge (pb_at_notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:53:40 +0100

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:51:58 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

>Do you mean, we owe it to the Iraqis to be sitting ducks, drawing
>the fire of the factions, so they can go about their business in
>blissful ignorance?
>
>I'll bet real money that they'd figure out a way to deal with their
>civil war problem, thank you very much.

Er, they didn't have a "civil war problem" until we created one for
them. It's now *our* responsibility to restore peace to their country.
Anything less would be a betrayal. I grant you we should never have
interfered in the first place, but it's too late to cry over that now. 

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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.
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