I continue to be completely uninterested in figuring out who shot John on Usama bin Laden’s escape to his former hidey hole in Afghanistan or his present hidey hole in Pakistan (if he’s even alive).
However, I think we might spend a little time reflecting that Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq have different levels of strategic significance. Somalia and Afghanistan have no importance whatever as long as they aren’t harboring training camps for terrorists. Tough on the Somalis and Afghanis, but that’s the way it is.
Iraq, however, will be of strategic significance regardless of who is in charge. The collapse of Iraq and, presumably, the warfare between its former components and, possibly, its neighbors would have inestimable significance. It would be an intolerable outcome.
Different circumstances call for different conclusions. Treating matters that are less important as less important is sanity, not inconsistency.
