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That doesn't mean it's not worth trying.


Why not? All evidence from previous similar strategies there is that they have failed miserably, and at great social and financial costs.

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Your country thinks so, too.


I don't know if we do or not. Our minority government is doing so, though, as part of a general strategy to appease Dubya (we don't want to be next on the invasion list just yet).