Re: Call Her an Idiot

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From: Clave
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"Merlin Dorfman" <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote in message
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> Charlie Wilkes (charlie_wilkes@easynews.com) wrote:
>
>
> : The military goal of eliminating Saddam seems trivial next to the job
> : of constituting an effective gov't for Iraq without a mandate to do so
> : that has at least some regional buy-in.
>
>      Exactly.  As much criticism as it has occasioned, and as much
> of a problem as it seems in hindsight, the decision not to occupy
> Baghdad during the Gulf War was at least partly due to this
> consideration: who or what would replace Saddam?  (Another
> consideration was not wanting to leave Iran as the only power in
> the region.)


Like they said in the Suez, "Of course we can get to Cairo, but what the
bloody hell do we do when we get there?"

Jim

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