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tartufe 12/04/2008 11:00 PM Report
What's not to like about Zakaria? Have his book - unread as yet. Implies (I think) the US needs to start thinking as a world neighbor rather than a hegemonic monopolizer of the only way to do anything - except well maybe wars and peddling of too sophisticated financial instruments.
Perhaps it's an ill wind that will curtail our penchant for war. The A-P (Afghanistan-Pakistan) conflict is shaping up to be our trifecta in stupid conflicts. The following is a re-post under General Chilton's conversation.
The US military via the air force and their missile firing drones are creating long term enemies that are now bringing predictions of non-nuclear mass destruction attacks in the foreseeable future. Our arrogance in our 30:1 proportion of civilians to bad guy kill will come home to roost. An aggregation of all Pakistan civilians killed will justify (rightly or wrongly) a terrorist attack - massive or otherwise.
The objective in Afghanistan and Pakistan is fanciful and doubtless illusive. What would victory be? Would we leave if Osama bin Laden were dead (whether by old age or missile fire)? Another will take his place. Then what? Do we stay until they vote us out a la Iraq?
Another 9/11 type attack is more likely the longer we stay than were we to leave tomorrow.
What goes around comes around. Technology is transferable - from nukes to missile firing drones.
How many civilian deaths would the arrogant jingos deem acceptable in Peoria?