[lit-ideas] Re: Iraq and news

John writes: This is really incredibly dumb--a board game general's view 
of strategy unencumbered by concern with global economic and diplomatic, 
not to mention humanitarian, issues. Saudi Arabia is to Islam what the 
Vatican is to Catholicism, Utah is to Mormons, and Israel is to Jews. 
One of the original neocon purposes in going after Iraq was to get US 
forces out of Saudi Arabia, where their presence is a constant casus 
belli to Muslims all over the world.

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So we can agree that the idea of abandoning Iraq to its own devices and 
retreating to a nearby stronghold is a bad idea?

That's at least a positive step toward creating constructive notions of 
how to deal with Iraq.

Maybe the next question is force size and deployment. Should the US 
institute a draft and increase force size to somewhere between one and 
two million soldiers? Or should force size remain the same?

And should forces be deployed differently?

Cursing the candle and darkening the light,
Eric

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