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To: Free ThinkerNY

Revisionist History PING.

Sure. Like Hitler wouldn’t have gone to war to get what he wanted at some point. He just wouldn’t have gone for open war till he thought he had more loose ends tied up if he hadn’t been forced. Probably forcing him to go to war before he was ready economically was the right thing, looking back.

It’s certainly not what this guy says.


7 posted on 06/03/2008 8:32:26 PM PDT by mavfin
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He just wouldn’t have gone for open war till he thought he had more loose ends tied up if he hadn’t been forced.

To my mind, the issue in deciding whether to go into Iraq when we did was whether continued delay would be to our advantage or disadvantage. It's quite possible that we could have put off war for another ten years, but I don't think we could have put it off indefinitely. Suppose we had perfect information that if left alone, Iraq would cause us no problems for fifteen years, but in the sixteenth year it would nuke one of our cities. Even knowing that Iraq would leave us alone for 15 years, I could still see reasons for going in now if there was no indication that any future time would be better.

18 posted on 06/03/2008 9:08:24 PM PDT by supercat
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