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Originally posted by Bill
You are not really answering my question. You are giving me a political answer, when what I want is a military answer.
To respond to your statements, my question is, SHOULD American military be the world police?
I would say that when a military like ours forts up, the war is already over, and we have effectively lost.
And I also think that to turn a field army into an occupying police force is a gross abuse of the men and women in uniform.
You must know something about Algeria and the FLN. Algeria and Iraq are extremely similar. Are we prepared to do what the French did? And what happens when we eventually pull out? You know what happened to the friends of the French occupiers when that happened.
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I did answer your question, I said the war is just. The sad thing, is that if we dont step up to liberate and help other countries out, who will? Who helps those who cannot help themselves? Who is going to help the iraqi's who didn't want Saddam Hussein yet had to elect him because he was the only name on the ballot? At some point someone does have to step up to allow people to have their choices. Now don't get me wrong, if we turn the country over completely to the Iraqi's and the same shit happens, then its their own damn fault. Sort of like the old saying "Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, fuck you!" hehe
Someone has to attempt to help these people from dictators they have to live under and give them a choice.
The thing is, you are looking at the military through rose colored glasses. If we could solve every issue with talks and never go to war that would be great, but its not reasonable. Look at it this way, you live in a country that is allowing you to have your opinion, vote how you want to make your life better. The Iraqi's couldn't do that, they had NO choice. The only choice was the choice of Saddam. There would be no discussion of pornography like we have here, 2257 laws..hahaha, how about death.
We as free americans tend to look at things the easy way, lets put our kids in the corner for a time out instead of blistering their ass when they get out of line. Time out just doesnt work. It wont work with people like Osama (or Usama if you prefer), Sadam and the others.
Short and sweet...Militarily I believe we are doing the right thing, it was long overdue for us to liberate Iraq. If we leave to early we are not giving them the chance they need to take over, that was the problem during the first gulf war. I agree with the war, and I stand behind my president 100%. If it was John Kerry who sent us to war, I would be behind him 100% as well.
Andy
2004-10-15, 02:49 PM
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