Deja vu....
Oh Deja PEEEEW!! Steven...
What do you think is going to happen if the US just packed up and left Iraq?? Do you support US troops going into Liberia? They may die there too...
Iraq is not Vietnam.. There's no jungle to hide in..
There's no "untouchable" Ho Chi Minh supplying the enemy..
There's no sanctuaries for the enemy to hide in (in any quantity)..
There's no superpowers sending hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and military aid..
There's very few foreigners or Syrian Baathists willing to step in and don Fedeyeen uniforms when the local guerillas are wiped out (as happened during the Tet offensive)..
Just a bunch of whining people who couldn't care less about the number of US troops who DIE EVERY DAY in training accidents, but suddenly think it's unbearable that some of our boys die in Iraq...
That's what we get (in my case, got) paid for... We accepted the contract, the money, the free health care, the low salaries, the long hours, and the knowledge that the media and whining liberals without alternatives would spend every waking moment undercutting our mission, our morale, and our very lives...
Steven... if you have a viable solution to the problem of militant Islam, terrorist states, and the general economic and social degradation occcuring in the Middle East, please offer it.
And while you're at it, provide us an analysis and prediction for what happens in despotic regimes that have 30
% unemployment, and where 50% of their population is under 18??
IMO, we were going to have to fight there one way or another. Better to do it now, than be forced to spill even more American blood when the region collapses under it's own corruption and reactionary political situation..
Either way, the Arab street were still going to blame the west for their state of being...
Would you have pre-emptively dealt with Mussolini and Hitler, Kim Il Sung, Hideki Tojo.. etc, had you suspected the carnage they would unleash upon the world and their own people??
That's the kind of "deja vu" I'm worried about...
People with their heads in the sand who ignore the demographic and economic repercussions of what has been transpiring in the Middle East over the past 15 years.
Hawk |
