Posted on 01/07/2014 6:14:28 AM PST by shortstop
Well done and well put!
Better be broke than DEAD! The article, as much as I appreciated it missed something just as important. We also sent a message to our more powerful enemies that there will be a heavy price to pay if you wage war against our us. Forget about using 9/11 as a precedent. It must never happen again or we will bring down the full wrath of U.S. military power on your ass!
We are losing Iraq now because the current administration dropped the ball.
our us = us
That might be a good idea. When the Mongols--who might arguably be considered Chinese--took over the country in 1258, they implemented a program of urban renewal and population management.
Change "Al Qaida" to "Vietnamese Communists" and you've got the people.
Insert "Marxist Traitorous Liberals" to "Marxist Traitorous Liberals" and you've got the culprits.
Been there, done that, seen that. This is nothing new and Lonsberry's NCO friend feels exactly as I felt 38 years ago.
Whether we have bought another "decade of security" is quite another question, though. If that might be the case, we'd better find and elect another Reagan, fast!
I would give my life and soul to defend this great country. It is true our taxes are unfortunately wasted on useless programs but I have no problem using our tax money for defense of this country.
I am sorry you feel different but you have that right and we have paid in blood and $ for you to have this freedom of expression.
You’re a progressive coward is what you are.
You’re cowering in fear of people thousands of miles away and wanting to take taxpayer money and send someone else to go deal with the source of your fear.
If you really cared about America you would be screaming for border control and an end to our suicidal immigration policies. Unfortunately your kind generally supports amnesty as well.
How long before our billion-dollar embassy in Bagdad will need to be abandoned?
Your friend must be crestfallen about what is happening in the US considering how Islam is received with open arms by government and spreading unchecked in the country while Christianity is being suppressed.
I know, he did not fight Islam but mainly Al-Qaeda — at least, that’s the theory.
What an idiot.
Don't you get it? IRAQ WAS FOR NOTHING. 4500 dead, tens of thousands of irreplaceable young men maimed, trillions of dollars flushed FOR NOTHING.
And, although there is no bad thing you could say about "Obama" that I would not agree with, this pathetic ending in Iraq was determined the very day our incompetent and wholly inadequate "war" plan was hatched. Wrong enemy, wrong battlefield, wrong means, delusional ends - there was nothing about the misadventure in Iraq, which took longer than WW II and left the enemy center of gravity untouched that was worthy of the slightest praise.
And Afghanistan is just as bad, and may yet turn out even worse.
You are wrong on all counts!
Those people thousand of miles away attacked us right here in NYC just about 10 miles from where I live. It is not fear but an acceptance of reality.
In any case I will end this discussion now because I have work to do. I still love FR, good luck to you!
A NY “Conservative” well that explains a lot.
I supported going into Iraq.
I was wrong.
I supported Desert Storm.....I was wrong.
Especially leaving Saddam in power afterwards, that’s when he really radicalized.
If Arabs want to fight each other, let ‘em, I say.
Yeah only to have Kuwaitis protesting and even attacking our soldiers during Gulf War part II.
There was a nearly identical article about Afghanistan in this month’s Legion magazine (Canadian Legion).
Pathetic how our politicians have destroyed the morale of our fighting men.
Saddam lost, but we sure as hell didn’t win anything.
The terrorists started this war on terror.
“The terrorists started this war on terror.”
News flash, Saddam had nothing to do with 911 and in fact was fighting those same terrorists and doing a darn good job of suppressing them. We attacked him on some trumped up charges of having “weapons of mass destruction” remember? In reality it was because Bush jr had his panties in a bunch about Saddam trying to put a hit on his dad.
So evidence has come out that it was the Saudi government (and Bush knew this at the time he attacked Iraq) that was behind the attacks, are we going to start a war with them? No? Gee what a surprise.
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