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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sig who wrote (112700)8/25/2003 5:46:40 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Your insults are duly noted. <Well, I guess no other Nations would want to send in troops where there is any chance they would get killed or have to shoot some Iraqi looters. It costs money to train those people, they should be saved for more important jobs, like assisting in national disasters or mob control at Political gatherings.
Things seem to be quieting down a bit, and it might be considered safe enough over there in a few more weeks.>

You think Americans are "brave" and others are not? You think the bravest people in the world are the ones firing depleted uranium shells from American tanks? You think the bravest people in the world are the ones that push a button to launch a cruise missile from one hundred miles away from the battle or to call in an airstrike and carpet bomb lightly armed troops in a country with no airforce? You think it is the height of bravery to drop cluster bombs or to drop napalm on "soft targets"? Our troops are fine Americans and deserve all of our respect, but to suggest that they are brave and the people of other countries are not reflects an arrogance that degrades the people of the United States and insults those just as brave from other countries. People from other countries might be willing to bail us out of this mess -- we will see. But it has nothing to do with how brave we are or how cowardly they are -- it has to do with the way in which we chose to behave as a rogue nation in which the lure of sheer firepower displaced wisdom and sound foreign policy.
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