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This is exactly what General Tommy Franks said in different words when he retired as General in charge in Iraq years ago. It was carried in an interview in Cigar Aficionado. We posted it here and is on compendium.

Jim

"Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretense of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it"

--- Helvetius