Re: being obnoxious/OT

Posted by RodInNS on April 13, 2007 at 20:04:39 from (142.177.41.151):

In Reply to: Re: being obnoxious/OT posted by dad's88 on April 13, 2007 at 16:07:32:

You need not feel sorry for me. I don't see any reason to.
Beyond that, those who disagree with me (and there are many) can do so. It makes no difference to me. I'll argue for the sake of arguing. The one thing that I find interesting though is that all those who tell me I'm wrong have yet to put up any positive results for their methods. IF they could actually do that, I might listen. But they haven't, and my opinion remains the same.

So far as the current morass in Iraq goes.... I don't really see how any parallel can be drawn between that and either of the World Wars. Those two had some very clearly drawn lines involving an expanding tyranny attempting to overrun the better part of central and western Europe. The objectives and sacrifices undertaken in that campaign were for the purpose of defending the freedom they had and enjoyed, and were deemed temporary.
In Iraq, you have a situation that had no such clearly drawn lines. With the terrorists, there is no line. There's only shadows and gurrellas that appear from nowhere, wreak their havoc, and move on. There's no logical strategy to combat that.
In Iraq there existed a hated tyrant who was mostly a danger to his own country and those he oppressed. He wasn't quite stupid enough to head out again and take on the world in a battle he knew fully that he would, and did lose. So, you have a president who decided it was time for Saddam to go, and mustered the resources to do the job. He just didn't quite anticipate the civil war that would follow. And there it stands. Defending freedom in Iraq, good people dieing by the day, for nothing, fighting the Iraqui civil war.
There's nobody any safer today in the US than they were on Sept 10, 01. You're paying for a war, by the hundreds of billions of dollars, for nothing.
The Soviets tried that. It was called the cold war. The arms race that ensued consumed the better part of the financial resources of that empire to the point that it crumbled. Osama and his crew understand that too.
Meanwhile, east asia is applying all it's resources to doing what the US did 100 years ago. Building. Supplying. Making money.... and it's going to hit you someday like a freight train you never saw coming.
All I can hope for in Iraq today is that some kind of solution can be reached there where the rebuilding starts and the troops can come home. They can't very well leave the way things are now. The job needs to be completed whether it was right or wrong in the first place.

Otherwise, remark on my capacity and the sand in my ears all you wish. Just remember that sand doesn't have a very good taste. Hope you never need to swallow any.

Rod

Replies:

• Re: being obnoxious/OT dad's88 09:02:17 04/14/07 (2)
  • Re: being obnoxious/OT RodInNS 14:12:03 04/14/07 (1)
    • Re: being obnoxious/OT dad's88 21:17:31 04/14/07 (0)

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