[RinaseaofDs]

I agree.

We can also put this in terms of battlefields. If the effect of democratizing Iraq is the funneling of terrorist resources into Iraq, then I prefer Iraq as a battlefield to Manhattan or Seattle.

If the costs do anything, it will be to add impetus to our closing off the funding of these organizations with even more zeal.

If anything this is just going to force us to take a very long look at who our friends are, and what it is they mean to us militarily and economically.

Our relationships with China, France, and Germany are up for new scrutiny.

[A. Pole]

If the effect of democratizing Iraq is the funneling of terrorist resources into Iraq, then I prefer Iraq as a battlefield to Manhattan or Seattle.

I suspect that Russians feel relieved seeing that all those Islamist whackos can go to Iraq instead of Chechnya.