it_is_'without_doubt'_a_'successful_catastrophe' The Graces from Heaven * a_point_in_Time - a_wrong_war_in_21k * WHAT IF WE HAD NOT GONE INTO IRAQ? Sun Sep 12, 3:05 AM ET By Richard Reeves WASHINGTON -- I have thought for a long time that communism would have collapsed in the 1970s rather than at the end of the 1980s if the United States had not chosen to go to war in Vietnam. We squandered years of moral, political, financial and military capital in jungles and rice paddies we could not name, much less "conquer" or "liberate." Because of that... So, what would be different or what would life be like if we had not made the choice to invade Iraq? Here are some answers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All that, I think, must have been way back in the president's mind when he branded his war a "catastrophic success." It is, without doubt, a successful catastrophe. 040913 what's it to you? who go blather from