Something else to say and it relates to a previous post about honest and continuity of promises by government.
When we went into Iraq for the second time, that was not good because we had already lost men, material and treasury on the first operation so we had to do it again and retake the same damn desert and fight those that we let get by us on the first attempt.
The government, knew it was going to be a hard sell, so Bush spent a year traveling and selling the idea that we were going to establish a democracy, a second democracy in the heart of the middle East as a counterweight to Iran.
That was the goal!
Now look at it!
I had a mentor who gave me some great tips about living and life in general.
He said (and you have heard it before) “That a job worth doing is worth doing well”.
Rephrased: “When you do a job, you do it well or don’t do it at all.”
All my arguments, probably a could thousand words over the last 20 hours or so, all boil down to that concept and I verbalized ways of doing that with our military goals when we use it. Or how we should decide to use it or not and just do proxy actions or political or just disinformation.
Simple as that, because I don’t like what is being done and the way it is being done in recent decades. Actually since Korea.
We took back Kuwait the first time. We didn't invade Iraq. We didn't retake the same desert.