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No worries, fish, just take care of it.
I would say that if al Sadr should have an unfortunate accident, I would not lose any sleep over it, but we have to consider second and third order effects.
What would the violence that would erupt do for our cause in the long term? Is the Iraqi government prepared to deal with it?
Who would replace him? Are they going to be any more or less rational? Would they be more supportive of the current government?
In short, this is chess, not checkers. We need to dealing effectively with the present, but thinking several moves ahead toward the end game.
Pros and cons, hearts and minds.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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