| Sorry but spouting off patriotic heroic quotes doesn't cloud the reality..... perhaps those in the US, but there's a worse reality out there....
While I admire your faith in trying to look for a positive outlook on a situation that was rotten from the begining, continuing with this solid "Stay the course, or we'll look like fools in front of them" attitude will be the death of your country....
The more troops you send over there, the longer you keep them there, the worse you're gonna get when it's too late.... what I mean by that is this is exactly what they want you to do..... keep sending your troops.
The more troops you send, the more they kill, they will keep coming, and their recuitment is very close in proximity, and as you said, their mission has been going on for centuries..... what makes you think sending a couple 10x K + of troops for two or three years was going to stop it? What made you think this war would have been over in a couple of years? That's just blaitent nativity.
The British Empire, when they planned to occupy or take a country, they planned for occupation for around 100 years and hundreds of thousands of troops to keep the country in order..... you guys sent a boot squad and thought it'd be done in a weekend in comparison..... You guys bit off more then you could chew and your country doesn't have the experience to try such a feat alone...... you're still a young country, such as we are.
As long as you guys are sending the majority of your troops over across the globe to fight a war you can not win alone, you're troops will continue to be cut down, until your funds are almost exausted, your recruitment is not meeting up to the demand, and your military within the next few more years will be deminished very badly..... leaving you guys with two options:
#1 - Become extremely vulnerable at home land from more attacks by terrorists and become crippled from the inside out, which is what stratigy I would use..... or.....
#2 - Exausting your countries wealth to meet the demand of more troops and police for home land security, devistating what little funding is going towards everyday life is left. Quality of life would be worse, personal freedom will be lost, and crime will rise. Gradually within a decade or so, the country will have degraded so badly it would only be a shell of it's former self.
Staying the course and trying to not look like you guys screwed up isn't going to work, and will be the death of your country one way or another. You guys screwed up in Veitnam, but you guys lived on...... because eventually you knew when to quit.
The only option I see is to do what most are saying, and pull your ass out of there..... the government is going to be crushed one way or another.... whether your troops are in the way or not. They will indeed be coming in force to your country, and probably my own.... which is why it would be smart to bring your troops home and try and restratigize before you're reduced too much.
This war is going to be going on now for a few decades now.... the wheel is turning.... what's going on in Iraq is just a small chapter in what's coming....
Saying that while you're fighting there it's keeping them off your land, is a fools paradise.... and not a pretty one at that. They're building up more and more.... the longer you stay there, the more begin to hate you. The more they kill of you and the more you feed them, the more training they get on your tactics..... the more people will joing just to shoot some infedels.
It doesn't matter if you say that while you're fighting there they're not in the country.... regardless if they were in your country or in Iraq, they're getting exactly what they want...... pepople from the US to kill and they're still doing it. Just draining your resources with no goal or end in site. And they don't even have to fly over to the US anymore to do this.... you're delivering them over to Iraq.... which is kinda ironic, since you guys put all that security on planes now, they don't even have to come to the US at this point to do what they want.... you're doing it for them.
Terrorism as you guys like to call it, is not like typical fighting, and modifying slightly your tactics to fight it is not going to work.... you've adjusted to urban combat, but like what they do in retreating and coming back with more force and new tactics, so should you guys......
This holier then thou, we're the great patriot empire attitude is what made Britian loose against you guys, and now you're doing the same thing..... they kept their tactics, you guys made new ones.... you guys didn't form up to fight straight on, you used militia style and gurilla style fighting, and it worked..... you also knew when to pull out of the fight against them.
Now here you guys are thinking you're the supirior force with all the technology to back you up as an unstoppable force..... but you're up against a force that won't fight like you will.... they're not as organized or respectable as you guys are. Yet they're kicking your ass..... just like you guys kicked the British's asses.
You gotta look into your own history to get out of this one.
History will repeat itself until we learn from our past mistakes. |