[Rhodes22-list] Political:Off to Iraq

[Brad Haslett]

Dave,

"But the  alternative approach does not sing the neo-con Republican party
line, and for that you brand it leftist."

What exactly is the alternative approach?  I've heard about basing troops in
Okinawa, cut-and-run, etc., but I' still haven't heard  any specifics about
alternatives, before or after 9/11.  Earlier I posted the Clinton
administration position.  The Bush administration simply "pulled the
trigger" on a previous administration's position.

In the absence of a specifically stated policy, I can only assume it is 1 -
a secret, or 2 - things will just simply get better with a party change.

Which is it?

Brad



On 10/25/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
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