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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Your response was thoughtful and I appreciated reading it. I want to agree Rubicon, but my head nodding up and down is limited by a couple facts... - We've entered three wars in the last fifty years and haven't won any of them. Not only haven't we won militarily, but we haven't achieved many of our original objectives for entering those wars. We can study and debate the military and political reasons for those results, but our failure to "win" is unassailable.
- In the process of fighting those three wars, we've killed and maimed thousands of young Americans. The result is that the American public has largely lost it's appetite for war. The sacrifices made by American families who sons and daughters fought hose wars are all in a very narrow slice of the American public, generally the lower income, less well-educated classes. If a vote was held today to question whether we should enter a war as you suggest, but that the human sacrifice be shared by all classes of Americans, it's almost certain that the answer would be a resoundingly 'NO'.
- And it's quite apparent that our war efforts in recent decades have cost the country so much treasure that it's arguable that we couldn't afford to finance another long war, which an attack on Iran surely would cause.
So as much as I'd like to agree with all that you've said, I'm afraid that we've reached a point in our national history where we're simply incapable of doing what you suggest. Or if we did, it would likely be the fourth consecutive losing effort, which would likely tip the county into complete bankruptcy. |
Since we seem to be losing Russia as an ally and they are getting more and more cozy with Iran, is it then your suggestion that we simply sit on our hands until that mushroom cloud is seen in this country...or do we pay the nth payment of blackmail to Iran to keep them from making that happen.
NOBODY wants war....EVERYONE, not just you....believe it or not knows the expense in men and money, but it does not seem our President is able to even speak with a commanding tone let alone do anything thus we have ourselves a small problem.
I do not advocate war in anyway, but the world situation is terrible and I look for leadership and do not see it anywhere.