I assume I'm speaking to Robert, and I'd appreciate it if you'd identify yourself rather than going anonymous.
But you then assume that everything the Bush administration does is in the best interest of our nation rather than in the best interest of the Bush administration. No, I don't make any assumptions. I'm well aware that the highest priority of the Bush administration is to remain in place for another four years. The reason I support[ed] the war was not the same reason Bush wanted to fight the war; but while our motives (and, probably, goals) were different, we both came to the conclusion that war was necessary.
I took American History the same time as you and if I recall correctly did better on the AP. You recall incorrectly, although I don't see why it should matter. I got a 5, too.
You talk about evidence but did you ever really look at it? At the time I wrote this, yes, I did. I simply reached different conclusions from it than you did. I hear that two great historians may look at the same documents and divine completely different theses from them -- meanwhile, neither you nor I are "great historians" by any stretch of the imagination, and the fact that we may have ::gasp!:: different opinions should hardly be surprising. I don't think you are wrong. I just see things differently. And I'm ever so glad your hindsight is so clear; I wrote this in early MARCH, when I didn't have such foreknowledge.
Hopefully now, we will still be able to fight the real threat that is Al Qaeda now that the Iraq war is more or less over. Somehow, I don't think we've managed to use up ALL our soldiers and ALL our resources in the war with Iraq. If and when the administration decides to send our forces elsewhere, I'm sure they'll manage.
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Re: The war
Date: 2003-07-02 08:28 am (UTC)But you then assume that everything the Bush administration does is in the best interest of our nation rather than in the best interest of the Bush administration.
No, I don't make any assumptions. I'm well aware that the highest priority of the Bush administration is to remain in place for another four years. The reason I support[ed] the war was not the same reason Bush wanted to fight the war; but while our motives (and, probably, goals) were different, we both came to the conclusion that war was necessary.
I took American History the same time as you and if I recall correctly did better on the AP.
You recall incorrectly, although I don't see why it should matter. I got a 5, too.
You talk about evidence but did you ever really look at it?
At the time I wrote this, yes, I did. I simply reached different conclusions from it than you did. I hear that two great historians may look at the same documents and divine completely different theses from them -- meanwhile, neither you nor I are "great historians" by any stretch of the imagination, and the fact that we may have ::gasp!:: different opinions should hardly be surprising. I don't think you are wrong. I just see things differently. And I'm ever so glad your hindsight is so clear; I wrote this in early MARCH, when I didn't have such foreknowledge.
Hopefully now, we will still be able to fight the real threat that is Al Qaeda now that the Iraq war is more or less over.
Somehow, I don't think we've managed to use up ALL our soldiers and ALL our resources in the war with Iraq. If and when the administration decides to send our forces elsewhere, I'm sure they'll manage.