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Entry: Leave the Fanatics to Kill Each Other Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/leave_the_fanatics_to_kill_each_other#969 Post contents: I'd say just the opposite. If we'd gone there to SMASH, we could have done that in a week and gone home with the lowest-casualty victory in history. With nukes, we could have SMASHed Iraq by remote and not lost a single soldier. The mistake came in sticking around and trying to "win the peace." The opportunity to use Iraq for some sort of new-and-improved Marshall Plan was too tempting for the liberals on both sides of the aisle. They're far too enlightened and modern to go crush a country for military reasons, but make it about bringing people civil rights and public schools, and they're all for it. That's the sad thing about Bush: he did the thing he's most hated for precisely because he thinks just like those on the Left who hate him for it. That doesn't make it any less of a mistake, but they ought to be sharing his guilt, not piling on him. Sent at: 2008 10 06