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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: one_less who wrote (244322)10/8/2007 3:33:57 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Well, if your quote of Pelosi was a "direct response" to my post, then why did you instruct me to "tell her, not me" when I responded.

You can't have it both ways.

Here's another rule of posting courtesy; you can't use your imagination to reinterpret what others have said. I.e;

"I responded to comments from you suggesting that anyone who hopes for the best or who sees the military as having accomplished objectives in Iraq is a blind follower or a cheer leader. That narrow minded prelude to everything that could otherwise be an open and constructive discussion is offensive to free thinkers such as myself.

Maybe a self described "free thinker such as [yourself]" ought to refrain from misinterpreting other's comments so incorrectly. I never "suggested" that anyone who "sees the military as having accomplished objectives in Iraq is a blind follower or a cheer leader."

The point is not that the military doesn't accomplish anything in Iraq; of course it does. The point is that the military's accomplishments in Iraq have not, and will not, address the underlying causes of the violence and will not result in solving the horrific problems that plague that nation.

Look at it this way, if the patient is suffering from a potentially fatal cancer that results in skin lesions, you can do all kinds of heroic treatments to address the lesions and claim success when you clear up one lesion or another, but your great efforts are not going to remove the underlying cancer.

That's what we're doing in Iraq. We're treating the symptoms with our military but the disease (conflicting cultural, religious, economic, historical and ideas deeply held among disparate peoples willing to fight and die) is not controllable by our "military having accomplished objectives in Iraq."

Can you understand that simple concept or is to "narrow minded" for a "free thinker" like you? Ed
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