Re: Post-Saddam Iraq?

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 10 Nov 2002 - 18:12:16 GMT

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    > > The appearance of such articles signals that the question is being
    > > considered; there will have to be nation-building and
    > institution-building;
    > > the US knows that. Post-USSR Afghanistan and post-Gulf War Iraq
    > > taught us that the US cannot conquer, cut and run to keep things on
    > > the cheap, for (eventually) cheap it is not. The US will not repeat
    > > those mistakes, for it full well knows their cost. Instead, it will
    > > look to its successes in Japan and Germany for its model.
    >
    > Just a short intersect,
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    > Successes Joe !?
    > Are talking about the funds that Japan and Germany had to come up with
    > in order to pay their war- debts !? Or are you talking about the re-
    > building of Japan and Germany at the expense of Dark Africa !? That
    > was the original American plan, wasn 't it !? IIRC, Europe was to re-
    > built at the expense of Africa and see what mess the continent is into
    > ! At what price will the US succeed this time, South- America, Asia,
    > Europe or will Bush try to get the funding from his own national
    > reserves !?
    >
    > Kenneth
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    The US is wealthy, but not infinitely so. It cannot support the entire rest of the world. So, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Back then it was the Axis; these days it is the Greater Middle East. Europe was to aid Africa. BTW: Germany and Japan are grateful for the US Marshall Plan aid that rebuilt their devastated countries; let's hope the US can do as well in Afghanistan and Iraq. South America receives some US aid, but they are in better condition, and pose less of a terrorist threat, than the Greater Middle East. And the relative wealth and industry of the Pacific Rim nations is quasi- legendary.
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