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Author: Jonah ThomasJonah Thomas Date: Sep 11, 2008 04:08
Charlie Springer regnirps.com> wrote:> Elizabeth D Rather wrote
>
>> Presidents run the executive (administrative) part of government, of
>> which military is but a part. And if military mistakes are "easy"
>> to fix, how come we haven't fixed Iraq yet?
>
> By much easier to fix, I mean compared to something like the Income
> Tax. (You assume a terrorist tar baby like Iraq is a mistake. Fix
> Chicago, where more people were murdered last month than soldiers
> killed in Irag. Oh oh. Here we go! Never mind.)
I was ready to quit this but I could go one more round.
If we wanted to spend $120 billion a month to keep people from getting
murdered in Chicago, we could probably do a pretty good job of it.
For that kind of money we could probably ship them all to iraq and find
a place in iraq we could keep them safe.
It might be effective to do it the way we've done it with sunnis in iraq
-- we could look for people who're likely to commit violence and pay
them not to. We could also offer them weapons and weapons training
provided they promise not to hurt anybody. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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