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Jerry Schnell br> San Pedro, California /p> p> ESCAPE TO KURDISTAN br> Re: James G. Poulos's Making an Iraq of Kurdistan : /p>

The solution to Iraq is not "redeployment" to the Kurdish north (as the author points out) any more than it is John Murtha's gutless "redeployment" to Okinawa. The solution is letting the military continue doing its job. In a war that has lost fewer lives than the peace time military of the 1980s and 1990s. The failed strategy of "tucking tail and running" as we did in Lebanon and Somalia is a recipe for disaster.

It would be nice if the American people, like President Bush, would put their trust in the US military to do its job â€" we're the professionals not Congress or the anti-military/pro-terrorist U.S. media. Quite frankly the active duty military knows a lot more about warfare than all the arm chair generals on the left and right combined (that includes the retired officers who are now media mouthpieces).

If the politicians and American people would leave us to our work we would not only win the war in Iraq, but we could in time put so much hurt on Islamic extremists that they would abandon terrorism. Sadly, in a country experiencing unprecedented prosperity and lifestyle improvements since the 1980s, boredom (called "war fatigue") with the tediousness of war is now the name of the game. One wonders if a nuke exploding in the middle of New York City would rouse the American public from its lethargic stupor and apathy for more than a couple of years?

p>It is expected that the Democrats will stab the military in the back (this includes pseudo-conservatives or "blue dog" Democrats), but it is disheartening when so many Americans are turning the knife for them. br> -- Michael Tomlinson

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