Letters to the Editor
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extremely ambitious objectives
including the extremely ambitious objectives of weakening terrorist groups, "improv[ing] the human rights of the Iraqi people"; and "establish[ing] a government in Iraq that could help stabilize and liberalize the Middle East.
I once spent two weeks as a child attending a summer camp run by Wheaton College (devoutly Babtist). One of the phrases they spent time drilling into our heads was "Nothing is impossible" I'm also recalling a book about the Apollo program entitled "Failure is not an Option"
Well I'm not sure the best way to point this out but sometimes things are impossible and failure is inevitable. The inability to consider that possibilty has so far killed tens of thousands people, (Millions if you consider how the same sort of thinking has been behind other disasterous human engineering projects!)