JFTR. The roughly $500 billion we the taxpayers spend on keeping the American military forces trained, paid and supplied doesn't reflect the current costs for fighting the terrorists. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are off budget.
The Bush administration could have saved a lot of American lives and taxpayer money if it would have fought the battle for Iraq, the same way it handled the invasion and take down of Saddam`s brutal regime. Its called total war!
The US military is not an international police force and it doesn't exist to be at the forefront of any nation building effort. Also, the US military doesn't exist to spread democracy to the Islamic world. The US military exists to fight battles, kill the enemy --- in this case, to kill Muslims --- and WIN wars.
I se, and that is why we have had roops in South Korea for 50 years. You have a lot of opinions and don’t seem to know the difference between opinion and fact.
The Bush administration could have saved a lot of American lives and taxpayer money if it would have fought the battle for Iraq, the same way it handled the invasion and take down of Saddam`s brutal regime. Its called total war!
Two different kinds of war. The 1st was conventional war, the 2nd is a counter-insurgency. You don’t fight them the same way, of of the two the 2nd is much harder as it requires something we don’t have a lot of..patience.
The US military is not an international police force and it doesn’t exist to be at the forefront of any nation building effort.
Actually that’s what it’s been for a large part of our history. It;s not for nothing that the USMC for most of it’s history was known as the State Deptments police force.