"Richard Webb -> BOB KLAHN" <1:116/901> wrote in news:113   
   $CONTROVERSIAL@JamNNTPd:   
      
    RW>> Indeed!  IT takes trained troops, it takes willpower, it   
    RW>> takes building of infrastructure, the things we're failing   
    RW>> to do in Afghanistan.   
      
    BK>>  Don't forget, nationbuilding is not good. Nationbuilding is bad.   
    BK>> Nationbuilding is the work of Satan. We know that because right   
    BK>> wingers tell us so.   
      
    RW> IT has its downside, I'd agree there, but something *must*   
    RW> be done in that region, and the better thing to do is   
    RW> provide the troops and resources necessary to do just that.   
    RW> PEople who have a future that is other than bleak don't have as much   
    RW> motivation to fight to the point of their own   
    RW> destruction.   
      
   You forgot one factor.   
   Religious fanaticism.   
      
   You know who just returned to Iraq, to huzzahs and celebrations?   
      
   Al-Sadr.   
   Remember him?   
   The fundy Shiite cleric who was telling his bunch of merry mutants to   
   attack Americans in Iraq.   
      
   Like Rachel Maddow said, we now have West Iran.   
      
   --- Xnews/5.04.25   
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