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Quote by: Zeebedee Which is worse, U.S. troops committing such a massacre, or having the people we are supposedly fighting and dying to bring democracy to framing our troops for it?? |
A very good, and very sad, point.
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Quote by: rmnunez So what would you recommend to break the "vicious cycle"? Would you prescribe a retreat from Afghanistan and Iraq? |
To be honest, rm, I just don't know. For two years now I've been alternately torn between thinking we should cut our loses, fold a losing hand and accept the horrible consequences, and thinking we had no choice but to gut it out and see if we can salvage some sort of reasonable outcome. But I've never really believed we could find that outcome, for the reasons I stated above, and I believe less so today. Bush desperately wants to get out of Iraq this year, because his own Pentagon has reported that we simply can't keep this up without wrecking our military, and I mean within months if not by the end of this year.
My best answer is the one I gave back in '04 when folks would ask,
"Oh yeah, well what can Kerry do to make it better?" I answered, nothing.... the train's wrecked. We can't unwreck it. I honestly and truly believe we're fuqued whether we pull out now or pull out later.
And I want the Bush League to answer for this disastrous, criminally reckless blunder.
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Quote by: rmnunez What should be done in the event of another 911? |
For starters, deal with the people that perpetrated the attack, not go prancing off into a quagmire against a country that had nothing to do with it, for reasons that didn't exist. If we'd focused on rebuilding Afghanistan instead of throwing our resources down the toilet in Iraq, I suspect we'd be much better off today. Instead, now we face the very real possiblity of losing BOTH Iraq and Afghanistan to anti-American Islamic regimes.
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