[deuteronlmy232]

The reason is simple: US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are badly stretched, and the pleas of US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to European countries to send more combat troops have fallen on deaf ears. Still, John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, notes that the war could proceed "for a hundred years".

Is there anthing to exspensive for the US tax payer? For, if the europeans won't help defend them from the terrorist, why not just do it for them? After all we wouldn't want to have to pick lettuce for only 50 dollars an hour.

[enough_idiocy]

McCain never said the war could last for 100years.

[Polybius]

Still, John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, notes that the war could proceed "for a hundred years".

Is there anything too expensive for the US tax payer?

Yes.

Handing over military control of the Persian Gulf geographic region that controls 70% of the World's know oil reserves to Iranian Islamist fanatics actively seeking nuclear weapons and ICBM's to deliver them to the soil of the "Satan Incarnate" aka, the United States of America.

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde