[Gilbo_3]

we r so screwed, and have been for a decade...

im trying to figure out why, post 9-11, we didnt ramp up and send the whole friggin might of the USA into afghan and iraq, instead of playing this piecemeal, ROE type pattycake game with these animals...

i know, its rhetorical, but dayum im sick of the whole mess, politically and militarily...either get in it to win, or stay home and quit talkin about it...

[sickoflibs]

RE :”we r so screwed, and have been for a decade...
im trying to figure out why, post 9-11, we didnt ramp up and send the whole friggin might of the USA into afghan and iraq, instead of playing this piecemeal, ROE type pattycake game with these animals...”

Because they have to lie to voters about how easy it will be to keep their support. This is why the surge wasn't till 2007.

Who wants to own those hell-holes with those hopeless people? Not China.

I recently saw a re-run of The Lion in the Desert starring Anthony Quinn. In the cold war days we used to cheer the foolish Italians and Soviets trying to take over those countries and getting whipped.

[NFHale]

“...either get in it to win, or stay home and quit talkin about it...”

Like one of our Freeper’s taglines says: “Fight like WWII, Win like WWII...”

We’re not fighting like WWII.

Curtis LeMay taught the enemy to fear the sky. Patton taught the enemy to fear the ground. Nimitz taught the enemy to fear the seas.

That attitude is sadly missing now.