Re: What 'War' Was That Idiot Talking about?

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:40:48 -0500, Gary DeWaay
<dewaay2spikeNOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <an1f84dcokbjk8sv396eb1s7onl16cvm79@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
>retrogrouch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  says... 
> 
>
>> But yes I argued in 2001 we should have stayed out of Iraq and
>> Marshall planned Afghanistan to turn it into the prime example of
>> nonsectarian democratic Islam. We could have flooded them with
>> schools, rebuilt their universities and made them the next South Korea
>> and had more positive impact on US respect in the region.
>> 
>
>Imagine if Bush had pumped a trillion dollars into Afghanistan instead 
>of Iraq, and actually killed bin Laden in Tora Bora?
>
>He'd prolly be still having historically high approval ratings, the Pubs 
>would still be controlling both Houses, and the next President would 
>almost certainly be a Pub.
>
>And righties act like it is us mean ol' lefties fault their "permanent 
>Republican Majority" flamed out in 6 years... never to be seen again.. 
>prolly in any of our lifetimes.


But it wouldn't have delivered near the same sort of macho cowboy
hubris.