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[Don Claybrook]

1. you don't "give" a country sovereignty. You and GWB need to sit in on some training classes together r.e. sovereignty.

2. killing babies is not equal to disarming the radical Hezbollah militia, which brings me to

3. No matter how bad or good Hezbollah may be, they're woven into the country of Lebanon, and "taking them out" means lots and lots of slaughter--much more than we've seen. Read that as "not worth it, find a different way, negotiate, talk, do something, but quit killing children".


We had no plan in Afghanistan with the possible exception of a pipeline. We let Osama get away, apparently by design. We were never there to "help". And no, we shouldn't have invaded the country. It was a fool's errand, as the former Soviets and British would've been glad to tell us had Incurious George only asked.