DR,
re: What's the point. Americans have always been willing to sacrifice for freedom.
You must have missed VietNam.
re: But the Iraqi families who made this sacrifice seem to have no qualms with it, solely because they know it had to happen.
I'm glad to see that you have interviewed the Iraqi families who have lost family members in the war. That must be why we have such a peaceful situation in Iraq.
re: - We started a process which will end anti-Americanism in the Middle East.
What planet are you living on?
re: - We made it possible for the Iranians to move toward democracy.
The future is unsure, the dead are dead.
re: - We put the Saudis and the Syrians on notice that we will not tolerate their garbage any longer.
What are we giving Syria in aid? Tough guys, eh?
re: - We've begun the creation of an environment where commerce can flourish in the center of the Middle East. Our $100B will be repaid many times over with returns from this investment.
Our 100B will never be repaid, and you are underestimating the cost. You got some wierd pollyanna view of the middle east, like it's a suburb of Detroit. Get real.
re: - Essentially, we have stablized the entire region. While it will take a little time to settle down...
The region was pretty damn stable, we've made a mess of it.
re: - We eliminated the massive cost of maintaining a military presence in the region to monitor the no-fly zones and support WMD search fiascos.
LOL
re: - We also eliminated the anti-American sentiment that comes from our presence in the region.
ROTFL
re: - I don't know about you, but I haven't the slightest concern that Iraq may pose any threat to the United States.
Never did.
re: This list could go on ad infinitum.
I'm sure it could, your ability to justify is boundless.
The thing is, you are blantantly wrong. The neocon philosophy is new, unproven, and based on bad assumptions. And it's distroying the institutions that some very good republican and democrat presidents have labored to establish over the last 30 years. Bush and his bunch are fanatics, they are cowboys, shooting from the hip.
Bottom line, they are causing more harm than good, they are setting back progress, they are making the world more dangerous, not safer. And the real conservatives are going to turn on Bush, and talk show conservative idiots like you are going to be left on the fringe, where you belong. And you will wonder what happened.
John |
