DuctapeFatwa
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Wed Nov-12-03 11:21 PM
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Good piece by Henry Liu, long, and I can never pick which of his sentences, it's from a couple of weeks ago, but a good one for those interested. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ23Ak01.html
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Wed Nov-12-03 11:34 PM
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I found this telling, "A congressional study last month found that unless major adjustments are made, the army will be forced to shrink its occupation force to less than half, including cutting "other international commitments". The Iraq War shows that a superpower empire cannot be maintained without a massive occupational force, something that the US lacks. The Times observed that this is "another regrettable consequence of the unilateral way America went to war in Iraq"."
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