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Originally Posted by usetosellhummer
I don't belive the two are alike and the history of our dealings in the region has been left out. We put the sha in, proped up Osama to fight the USSR. backed Hussian against Iran, the list goes on. Our politics has caused this and I voted for Bush and support the war but it was done all wrong and in this day and age we cannot afford to pull these wars off. I think Reagan was the best and Bush got bad info, bad PR, bad advice and now there is no way out. My father came back from WWII messed up and noone talked about it back then. the VA is a joke, and we can't borrow money we don't have to pull this stuff off. No effort to become self reliant with energy. It is a bigger problem brewing and I don't know if I will live to see it but it will be bad if we don't start working togeter. God bless our vets and I hope we can find a way out that makes sense, i don't know what it is.
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So what if we "We put the sha in, proped up Osama to fight the USSR. backed Hussian against Iran, [and] the list goes on ..."???
(1) It's a highly complex and unanswerable question as to whether things would be even worse if we had not done those things.
(2) Even if these were really, really, really bad things, are you recommending that we just let the world fall apart because we made mistakes in the past? Neville Chamberlain gave Hitler Czechoslovakia. What were the Brits supposed to do when the bombs started falling on London? Say: “Well we can’t fight Hitler under Churchill now because we ‘propped up’ Hitler in the past with old senile Neville”?????
No. You fight the bastards. Just like we should fight our enemies now. Our enemies would be absolutely terrified right now if we were united. As the piece Mooncricket posted reveals, we terrified the Nazis when we had far less of a capability of world-wide military dominance than we have now (we have appx 52% of all the world’s effective naval combat capability in our Navy alone; we are the only nation with a serious nuclear arsenal; greatest leadership; technology-Raptor-no other nation can dream of). It all means nothing if we are divided by a political party that wants to change the party in the White House more than it wants to win the war.