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Old 08-09-2014, 10:18 AM
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If we don't go in then evil anti-American people will take control and one nation after another will fall to their ruthless armies and crush their freedom loving population. We are all old enough to remember that line from Vietnam where we propped up one incompetent government after another and sacrificed about 60,000 soldiers. Then we left and now Vietnam is a vibrant economy and there was certainly no domino effect that negatively impacted our national security nor interests. We have backed out of conflicts with a cost of both lives and treasure (see Beirut 1984 ). We need not go back in to somehow justify the sacrifices we sadly have already made. Is showing how tough we can be in imposing our will against Muslims going to be the test for succeeding in politics like being anti-Communist was in the '50s?
I agree!! Sometimes we do learn from past history. Hopefully, we will not make the same mistakes again with American blood.