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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
I'm going to assume you mean, "...trying to judge the success or merits with insufficient distance".
If that's so, hasn't Spanky done just that? He's already declaring it a great success.
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No - I pointed out that under most of the possible scenarios it will be a success. I have not concluded that it will be a success. There is always the possiblity that something unexpected will happen.
But I will say, from our perspective, every foreign policy foray is a risk, and the downside of this risk were pretty minimal. So from a risk reward analysis I think it was the right decision.
Actually the big risk was the war itself. We didn't know if Saddam was going to use a WMD on our troops and if he did we could have lost hundreds of thousand of men and women. But he did not, so the real big risk is over. The biggest down side has been avoided.
