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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (192193)	6/28/2004 11:43:04 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578762

......how many people were being beheaded in Iraq? Saudi Arabia? How many Americans were getting killed overseas? Why aren't they? I believe you can understand this. I do not believe tejek, A.S. or JF can. So I'm going to take a shot at it. First of all, I'm not even sure what his statement was intended to say. Was it that the world is now more dangerous than before? Or that the war is going badly? Or what? The measures he listed mean nothing in any context. We're in the midst of a war. People get killed. On any given day that number can be higher or lower than the day before. That, in no way, has any effect on the righteousness (and therefore the necessity) of the war. If the number of people who got killed in war determined whether we should continue fighting, our brave men would have jumped back in the water at Normandy and shouted, "Take me home!". Honestly, this is why you have to have a strong leader versus a Kerry, Carter, or Clinton. Can you imagine these guys in this situation? No way could they finish the job. We would literally pack up and go home. But sometimes wars need to be fought. And you can't make the decision based on the bloodiness of the war. You make the decision up front, and once you have, you are fully committed. It doesn't matter what the opposing party says. It doesn't matter what the extremist movies say. You're there because it is the right thing to do. If I can point to one difference between the Right and the Left it is principle. The Right is more apt to carry out politically unpopular actions in the face of political opposition because it is the right thing to do. The Left simply has no stomach for it. Suppose the war in Kosovo could not have been won with air power alone? Do you think for a minute Clinton would have been there? The answer is, "No way in hell". He needed it to be nice and clean.