fredpb
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Originally posted by edstrelow Nevertheless wars are easy to start and hard to stop and their consequences are imponderable. Witness Viernam. America went in with a good intention, to stop North Viernamese aggression, and finally ended up propping up a corrupt and undemocratic regime, with unwilling, conscripted US soldiers. It lost the hearts and minds of its own people, never got the South Vietnamese onside and failed miserably to its great cost and domestic discord. Very simplistic an not totally correct view of that war. - FPB Then consider Afghanistan. We still cannot locate Osama Bin Laden, who didn't even have an army backing him up. So lets not overestimate our military power. He did have a whole government to back him. The Taliban. The USA did not do most of the fighting, the Northern Alliance did. - FPB These lessons hould be considered very seriously before acting. We could be in there for a very long time. the war may spread to other regions and we would certainly provoke new terrorist acts against us. Wake up. What provoked 9/11??? You think we should base our national policies on acts of terror? You actually think that there will be no more terrorist attacks unless "provoked"???? Dream on! -- FPB The puported rationale, of preventing further terrorism looks false given the lack of serious evidence that Iraq had anyhting to do with 9/11. On the other hand, the Saudis, who had everything to do with 9/11 are free to go about their business. The desire of the USA is not about passed "proved" association of Iraq and 9/11 (and if you think there is not, you are again dreaming). It is about future threats. The pacifists allowed Hitler to do his thing creating WWII. Now we have a chance to prevent history from repeating itself...allowing a madman time to act. The Saudis' are playing both ends. But remember, one of Bin Ladens peeves is American military installations on "Holy grounds of Islam", in Saudi Arabia. These are there with the Saudi's permission. - FPB SoI can see why many allies wonder about our motives and rationality. Not really. They just don't want to be targets themselves. They lived under the USA Umbrella during the Cold War. They got their asses saved by the USA in WWII (or kicked). Now they want to deny the USA the defense of it's territory and people. One way all the way. That's the mentality that got Hitler a place in history. -FPB |