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Politics : New FADG.
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (825)5/24/2007 12:21:10 PM
From: cnyndwllrRead Replies (3) of 4152
 
"...we just has 3 soldiers captured, summarily executed, and their bodies thrown into the Euphrates river. But where is the outrage as a nation?

Outrage as a nation leading to what? An increase in the amount of troops in Iraq? An acceleration of strikes against what? An understanding that they'll do to our soldiers what they're doing to their fellow citizens? Some kind of march to "victory."

As a nation fighting the war in Iraq we're like a family watching the house burn. We want to do something but there's nothing we can do but watch. And we ought to have enough sense to stay away from the conflagration.

When you tell me how to effectively fight and defeat embedded insurgents from the many factions in Iraq that are willing and able to kill our soldiers directly or through remote controlled booby traps and then disappear into the population, I'll get really outraged and decide if we should do what's necessary to "win" that war.

In the meantime I expect that such incidents will continue, I expect that we'll have a difficult or impossible task in attempting to locate, kill or capture those who did such things and I'll expect that in our efforts to retaliate we'll continue to lose more soldiers.

That's the reality, the "outrage as a nation" doesn't change that reality.

As Michael wrote, I'm outraged at the idea of placing of our soldiers on the other side of the world and giving them an impossible killing and dying mission long after we should have known that their lives were being wasted. That we can control. Ed
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