Expanding Iraq War into Syria is lunacy

toledoblade.com ^ | oct. 19, 2005 | Dan Brown

[TomasUSMC]

Iran and Syria have got to go. Any talk about fearing an expansion of the war is a little to late. The war is already being carried to US from and by Syria and Iran. Time for some ASS WUP elegant or not.

[traviskicks]

Agreed. In fact, the domino effect was reality:

http://www.neoperspectives.com/kerryvietnam.htm

[RobbyS]

Agreed.

[Diplomat]

we almost lost the Korean war the same way. Dissuading Syria calls for a more elegant solution.

North Korea's existence today is evidence we lost part of the war. Furthermore, they exist today because Chinese military crossed their border into Korea.

[elhombrelibre]

The guy is way ahead of events on the ground. That's something really new and good about the bed-wetting Liberals and Lefties. Now, they're worrying about the tyrants and aiders and abettors of anti-American terrorists way before we strike them. It refeals to an open-minded world that if you can find a dictator who works against America and freedom there will be a Liberal worried that we're going to defend ourselves.

[Joe Boucher]

Nah, I'd say Dans boyfriend picks his ties.

[KarinG1]

'Nameless faceless sources'? This guy must be a Scientologist getting his info from the mother ship via microwave radiation. He should hurry up and put his tin-foil cap on before the (R)aliens make a fool of him. Okay, it may be too late. If this were true, and I have my doubts, I would consider it a positive development. Iraq is pretty much under control, no sense waiting for the next attack on our soil before branching out.

[Manfella]

"North Korea's existence today is evidence we lost part of the war. Furthermore, they exist today because Chinese military crossed their border into Korea."

Exactly. To attack North Korean forces that would retreat across the border into China, our forces crossed the border to bomb them. When China asked us to stop bombing China we blew them off, so the Chinese crossed the border to fight us, and they turned our victory into a stalemate that haunts us to the present day. That is the parallel I'd rather not see.

We have plenty of enemies. Why hurry up and make more? Even if they are already enemies, passive enemies are less nettlesome than active enemies. Sometimes the winning strategy includes unpleasant choices, like playing nice with bad people. Winning is more valuable than ego.

[Diplomat]

Whether or not we bombed Korean bases in Manchuria a couple times within the first few weeks of our landing in Inchon had nothing to do with Chinese involvement in the war.

It was our crossing the 38th parallel less than a month after the landing that triggered Chinese involvement. Mao knew for certain this meant that the U.S. would occupy all of Korea. From there he felt we would attack into China. He appealed to Stalin to help him against the Americans.

The day after our crossing, Mao orders his army to the Yalu river border. Two and half weeks later, after he secured Soviet air support, Chinese troops are attacking UN troops in North Korea.

50 years after the war ends, Mao's dream of preserving communism in the North has reaped all the benefits of marxism by turning it into starving penal colony.

Meanwhile the South has grown into one of the top ten economies of the world. Quite a glaring contrast I would say.