Could. Not. Resist.
The first thing you need to do is your homework.
What our troops are fighting now is centuries of traditional corruption. Apple pie and baseball are symbolic of America, corruption and thievery are Iraqi tradition. We’ve already won this one, regardless of what the MSM would like you to believe.
War takes patience, unless you want to go hardcore. (Read: Hiroshima/Nagasaki) Soldiers die fighting, that’s their job. Military service is not for the weak of heart, and that’s why the left hates it. If the whiners would relax the ROE, we could wrap this thing up by next Tuesday. But again, P A T I E N C E. Bush 41 stopped short, because he wasn’t into “Nation Building”. As it turns out, Bush 43 is.
America’s biggest problem with War is our lack of patience, and the sissy approach the media takes, and projects.
God Bless our troops, Pray for them, but most of all, be patient. They are getting the job done.
Stay the course.
“America’s biggest problem with War is our lack of patience, and the sissy approach the media takes, and projects.
God Bless our troops, Pray for them, but most of all, be patient. They are getting the job done.”
Our overall goal is for every muslim on earth to live in a country dedicated to fighting the extremists that would do violence anywhere.
Tall order for sure. In cases like Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan the existing governments seem to do their best.
In the case of Afghanistan 9/11/01 it was clearly not the case, so we decided to change the whole government. Iraq is the other pressing problem.
Everyone of these places can become a churning nest of very nasty uncivilized animals, which is what we got in Iraq—probably to our surprise.
The second issue is WMD, which got us into Iraq, and lingers as the issue with Iran.
The alternative for Iraq would have been staying the course of diplomacy, inspections, fly over bombings of suspected facilities, etc. In retrospect it might have been better.
Patient commitment is key to avoiding another 9/11/2001 or worse.
These things seem to go case by case. We probably need to accept that for the foreseeable future, a few thousand casualties may be our price.
Bush and his administration have not done a good job of informing people about the threat of islamic extremists.