I want our troops back in the US. They're fairly safe here.
And I want my DC metro cops hanging out in the precinct building and local donut shops... They're fairly safe there, too... I certainly don't want them to patrol SE DC, and possibly get shot while doing their jobs.
What's the purpose of having an Army, Bilow, if people like you are unwilling to ever permit it to be deployed into any location where soldiers might be killed or wounded??
I can only imagine trying to fight WWII, where casualities were often in the thousands (80,000 during the Battle of the Bulge alone), with people like yourself constantly telling them "our soldiers would be safer at home"...
We're fighting the war on terrorism Bilow.. Maybe not in the manner you'd like, but we're fighting it. We know who the enemy is, where they are located, and, IMO, we have a strategy for conducting that war with a miminal amount of casualties.
It's a war that could be won in a shorter period of time were we willing to fully mobilize our nation and wage a bloody and brutal war against the Saudis. But such a strategy would run the risk of inciting a widening of the war as a "christian versus muslim" total war.
It's preferable to strategically implement US military and political actions in a manner that create the same, or acceptable results, namely the neutralization of Saudi Wahhabism, without requiring an all-out invasion of that Kingdom.
If you haven't noticed, the Saudis have recently escalated their actions against Islamic militants. They are on the defensive, with 150,000 American forces in the country next door, Iraq being rebuilt as a major competitor/rival in the oil markets, 28 pages of censored material of which we all know is an open secret, Saudi complicity/support in the 9/11 attacks, and facing the potential of an American public outcry to overthrow them if they don't show they are finally willing to choose sides, Westernization, or Wahhabism...
And after last night's 60 minutes, you're going to have a hard time getting the American people to make a long term committment toward stationing tens of thousands of troops there.
To continue supporting a corrupt Saudi regime, certainly.. But we're not doing that anymore, now are we... We're seeing the first "act" in what I believe is going to be a gradual escalation of pressure upon Saudi Arabia to deal with its militant factions. Certainly to cut off the funding to these militant groups..
Look, you and your kind got us into a hell of a bind here.
No.. YOU look.. People of your ilk are the ones who have ignored the hard realities and clear cut facts. You're the ones who have offered nothing but half-measures and strategic band-aids while ignoring the demographic explosion, combined with economic and political decay in the region..
And even now people like you are telling us to "fiddle" while the Mid-East burns... Burns in a way that will, if left to itself, will required MILLIONS of American (and European) soldiers to risk (and lose) their lives.
All because you chose to ignore reality and leave your heads up your arses...
Hawk |
