> Iraq occupied by a "multinational force" of troops contributed by "its
> neighbors" -- i.e., Iran, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi
> Arabia! That's almost enough to sign me up for a war on the drug that
> causes such an outlandish hallucination! Americans are in DIRE NEED
> of a twelve-step program:
>
> 1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to wars and
> sanctions and interventions, real or imagined, US or multinational,
> with or without US troops, with our money or other people's money --
> that our lives had become unmanageable.
Which is a good chunk of my point: For well established emprical reasons the US (be it govt or people) should have little or no say in such a force in Iraq or practically anywhere. I'm not sure how it then follows that USians should be forbidden to consider the possibility that military action -- or more to the point, reaction -- might ever be better than inaction.
-- Andy