The Mark(ings) of Zorro

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What's the Matter with Kansas?

Friday, October 25, 2002

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

DOH!! The slant of the news on TV these days is no longer "if there is a war with Iraq" so much as "when/after the war with Iraq". We are being constantly being bombarded by the assumption that this is already a "done deal", and we are, now, only waiting for the shoe to hit the floor since it already has been dropped. The voices (of reason IMHO) are becoming more and more muted as the drum beaters crank up the volume.

This is still a very bad idea. There was a talking head on one of the news channels yesterday who noted that our forces landed in Korea over 50 years ago, and they are still there; our forces arrived in Bosnia over six years ago and they are still there.

The problem with waging war on Saddam Hussein is threefold. First, we risk pissing off a billion (MOL) Muslims for whom Jihaad is not a foreign concept. Second, we will inevitably kill innocents in our pursuit of Saddam. Women and children who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time will die, and, while it is the way the world works (you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs), it still is not right. Finally, while a war with Iraq will most likely be quick, what we don't have is an exit strategy in place. That last one is the real kicker. Without an exit strategy, we risk being there (big, fat convenient targets) for a very long time. I foresee our combat casualties as being fairly light, and our occupation force casualties as being heavier.

I do not get a good feeling from all this...

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