[Rhodes22-list] Political:Off to Iraq

[DCLewis1 at aol.com]

Herb, You’ve ducked 2 issues with your post:
 
1. Until your last post there has never been a hint that “the other side”  
were anything but communists (Hank) or leftists (you).  You’ve never  accepted 
that there is another side worth thinking about,  it’s  leftist-rightist, 
versus another way of thinking about the problem.  It has  always been almost 
disloyal to think as “the other side” thinks.  The  reality, which may have only 
just surfaced in your post, is that there is  another interpretation of “the 
facts” and an alternative approach to the problem  of terrorism.  What you 
still haven’t realized is that the alternative  approach is neither leftist or 
rightist, but it is different.  But the  alternative approach does not sing the 
neo-con Republican party line, and for  that you brand it leftist.
 
2.  The issue is NOT as you state: people on this list “truly don't  
understand the concept that someone may be totally informed, in control of all  their 
mental facilities, intelligent, rational, and STILL make a different  choice 
than they.”  The issue is not personal choice, the issue is reality  on the 
ground.  History and events are showing very clearly which choices  were and are 
bad and the record shows who made those choices.  Remember the  expectations 
of  freed Iraqis dancing in the streets, discovered WMD,  acceptance of the 
rule of law as per Small Town Indiana as opposed to the Moslem  Shirra?  The 
charge is that the people that got us into the mess called  Iraq didn’t begin to 
do their homework - and the facts support the charge.  
 
Dave