[Echo Talon]

The only solution to Iraq is to leave it. Not because of the leftists who oppose anything American and not because of those Muslim hypocrites who said nothing when Saddam was slaughtering his own people, but because it has nothing to do with the Western world.

And Afghanistan does?

[brytlea]

The whole middle east does, whether we like it or not.
susie

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

And Afghanistan does?

Good point. The author has a pre-9/11 worldview. AFTER Saddamite terrorists hit us, THEN the author would support going after Saddam (never mind that Saddam violated the armistice agreement, tried to assassinate GHW Bush, attacked our planes enforcing the no-fly zone, violated UN resolutions, committed genocide within his country, etc.).

The problem with the author's pre-9/11 thinking is, after 100,000 in New York City die of small pox, how will we know whom to attack? What hope do we have of discovering who in fact was responsible for the small pox attack? As we now know, our intelligence within islamic societies has been rather poor.

North Korea, Saddam, the mullahs in Iran, al qaeda in Waziristan, or some other enemy?

Some will say, in that case the United States will simply nuke all of the above. I have to say I doubt that would happen.