[ACPlayer]

The problem with most of those who advocate a military response is not that they dont acknowledge that we made mistakes. THe problem is that they are unwilling see to the perspective of the other created by those mistakes and this is compounded by their inability to reason that we can fix some of these mistakes with real foreign policy adjustments.

6M's responses are classic in this direction: sure we made mistakes, those are past, now the mullahs are angry at us so threaten them and blow them apart before they take action. That is lets move in all our chips.

Failing to realize that this a losing proposition for us in the long term (a preflop movein strategy is not the right play for expert players, but is the right strategy for those in the red zone -- as the Islamic world is presently) is the issue. We need to work towards a view that the play of the hand must be taken further than simply a move-in mechanism -- something average poker players dont understand and are not able to cope with.

We need to become better thinkers and doers for the long run as all good poker players do.