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Old 09-11-2007, 13:44 PM   #31 (permalink)
astralis
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because we're no longer living in the late 1700s, and modern-day iraq is not enlightenment-era america. global consequences as a result of gov't failure come a lot faster.

a "whiskey rebellion" with AK-47s, RPGs, IEDs, and VBIEDs won't be so easily crushed by an iraqi george washington (not that he exists that we've seen) with a few thousand militia-men.
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