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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (109160)	9/16/2007 6:31:13 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, Originally I was 50-50 on this war. I thought the argument for it was reasonable enough to consider without being clear cut, but I had already read enough about the neoconmen running policy to know they couldn't be trusted (and I was right). I think those on the right that "legitimately" believed the war was justified in the beginning still believe that and will grasp at anything and everything they can to continue the effort, including the recent testimony from the general. They will also spin anything they can. I think those on the left that originally voted for the war because Bush was so popular and the nation was more unified changed as soon as it was in their best interests to do so politically. I think now that they've gone to other side, they can no longer be trusted to be honest about any possible successes over there because it will be too costly politically to say they were wrong twice. My own view is that winning or losing in the short term doesn't tell you anything about whether the effort was correct or not to begin with or whether you should continue it if you are losing. It only tells you how well you are executing now. We may have executed poorly on a war effort that we were mislead into to begin with, but I am still rooting like crazy for the surge and political efforts to work. I want a stable situation to come out of this. IMO, most of the left doesn't quite get a lot of this. That's partly why they so willingly switched views and why I have so little respect for most of them. Finally, I don't equate success with what is going on in the present. I equate it with what will be going on 10-20 years from now and the ultimate costs to the U.S. and people of Iraq if this continues.