Vile wrote:

adam wrote:

Iraq..A wisely chosen war, in terms of gaining a strategic vantage point.

and the moon is made of green cheese
Iraq was the wrong war for the wrong reasons

Not gonna argue with you. Your side lost. Deal with it.

Argument on the matter of initiating the Iraq war *is* pretty much moot, but let's not be glib about it.

"You lost, deal with it." is a rhetorical cheap shot. You're trying to establish that disagreement with your point of view is motivated by naievte. It's bad enough that we're so polarized that war supporters and anti-war activitsts often literally hate each other, but that's a reality I both accept and "deal with" on a daily basis. Don't cheapen the debate further by implying that only fools or children disagree with you.

The reason the argument is a waste of time is because it doesn't offer much useful analysis of what's happening now or what comes next. Saying that we should "deal with it" carries an implication that it's the past we should forget it and move on. Two of those statements are accurate. Forgetting about a battle you fought and lost is a tacit concession to the winner. There's no need to be bitter forever, but neither should anyone dismiss as irrelevant any cause they fought for, even, perhaps especially, if they lost. Nonetheless, it is the past, and we *should* move on. There are many difficult situations emerging on the National and World stage and dwelling on the past distracts us from dealing with the present and the future.

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