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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Great news for the US and Iraqis, and evidence of our diligence.
Get ready for the parade of those who will be bitter about US' success.
JP
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No parade here! This is good news, of course. I am very hopeful that it will assist in reducing the guerilla attacks in Iraq, although I think it is wishful to believe that they will stop.
I need to quote Pete for this next bit:
Some innocent people died in this campaign and that is unfortunate but it was never the goal and if we "pissed off the rest of the world", that's a small price to pay for protecting the security of our nation and even the ones we "piss off". 63 countries stood with us in this fight and the right thing was done.
I think it is important to note that very few countries initially stood with the US in the war. The bulk of the 63 have pitched in to help clean up and rebuild Iraq --> this is very different to supporting the war. New Zealand falls firmly into this category - we were against the war but, of course, willing to help rebuild (and I don't mean the contracts - we'll get none of them).
And I still think the "protecting our nation" bit you state is terrible.
Think of international relationships as inter-personal relationships. Imagine what type of person (family? might be a better analogy) the US would be given how it has acted at certain times in the past few months. It has ranged full spectrum (capricious agression to generous rebuild).