[optimistically_conservative]

It would be nice to now overcome the defeatists "we can't win the peace" as we overcame the "we can't win the war" back in the 90s. I would hate to see the Afghanis and Iraqis follow the Kosovars, Bosnians and Haitians in a semi-successful UN led reform effort and their current malaise.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

It would be nice to now overcome the defeatists "we can't win the peace" as we overcame the "we can't win the war" back in the 90s.

I think it's too messy and dangerous for the UN and the press, Amnesty Int'l, Doctors w/out Borders and the Red Cross inside Iraq - oh, and Dem politicians / socialists. For their own safety, they should remain outside the border until the troops and the Iraqi people find and remove the bad guys, the WMDs - and get settled.

(^;