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br> Tracy, California /p> p> LAWRENCE LOST? br> Re: Lawrence Henry's Don't Give Up the Ship : /p>

Bless his bleeding little heart, but Lawrence Henry is wrong. Nation building is messy, expensive, and problematic. Crippling a terrorist nation's ability to support terrorism and/or threaten the United States is comparatively cost-effective and clean.

p>The root of Henry misunderstand can be found in this closing. He says, "...we cannot simply exercise what John Derbyshire fondly calls 'gunboat diplomacy' against states that threaten us, and then leave. We owe the world better." Why not? And besides, America owes the world nothing; it is the world which owes us. br> -- Peter Skurkiss br> Stow, Ohio /p>

There are good points in Mr. Henry's piece, but one fatal flaw. He admirably notes the following -- usually not remarked on out of either ignorance or design (the latter by delusional neo-con democracy warriors bent on a pax-Americana on so-called Islamofascism in the Middle East) -- in his money paragraph:

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