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Originally Posted by mcelheny
Steve,
I know what you meant but there is no comparison between Iraq and those other countries!!!
Were we alone in a preemption invasion in those countries? Did we wipe out their governments
and dissolve their military? Are our taxdollars and soldiers the only ones holding up their governments?
I don't want to argue . This was an invasion started by our Adminstration without world support and there is plenty of evidence that there is no end in sight.!!! The article was about how a great deal of money is being spent so poorly with no oversight. We are in the middle of a civil war. It's a mess.
We have military bases all over the world. That's not the point. The point in this article was- in Iraq-our money is being stolen...misspent with no end in sight.
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Suggest you re-read my post. You may find that we are in agreement that war is wasteful - takes a lot of money and resources, and there never has or ever will be one that will be financially tracked with any level of accuracy. That's just the way it is.
This string started with two points: 1) the financial aspect of this war is a mess and there is little to know oversight on the cash faucet,; and 2) Mccain was referenced as saying this is a 100-year effort.
We seem to all agree in principle on Point #1.
Point #2 is a political jab at the Republican candidate, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, facts are facts, and the present is the present. We can lament about the past and the what and how this war started, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists in the present. So, the attention should turn to what should and will happen in the near and distant future.
As far as world opinion is concerned - Phooey! They are quick to seek handouts and bailouts - financially and militarily - and short on everything else. The second most worthless thing on this planet, IMHO, is the United Nations - and I rate it second only because statistically there may be something that rates more to the negative. It's proven to be nothing more than the playground of the diplomatically elite by virtue of its location. Move the monstrosity to Reykjavík, Iceland (a perfectly neutral site!) and see how many nations participate!
We have military bases around the world for two reasons: 1) because we beat certain countries at a war and found ourselves rebuilding the places economically and politically; and 2) they provide convenient staging areas for the inevitable next deployment.
Did we wipe out the Japanese and German governments and disband their military? Yep!
There are very few things that I'm really sure of, but one of them is that I can't rewrite history and change the past. It is what it is. The future is another matter altogether, and whether one considers the current situation as a mess or not, it is what it is, and won't heal itself. So, what's do we do next that will be productive and assure national security?