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Originally posted by marg6043
I guess the military community that is great are feeling the stress and perhaps even the sentiments of their love ones in Iraq.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Yeah lets let almost 2000 deaths be for nothing,
Are Americans unwilling to go the distance?
I don't think that is the case.
Do Americans smell a rat? Probably. Are they wondering why it is imparative that Iraq becomes a Democracy (mob rule under military control)? Possibly
why not build an Army training post and use a limited number of soldiers to train their soldiers. Also, why not send a portion of their soldiers, say, the NCO's, through schools in the states, such as military police school?
While doing this, take our soldiers out of the streets and have them, at most, as a back-up force in case the Iraqis get in a bind.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
This is the first time this sentiment has taken the majority, and is at 53%
Originally posted by DiRtYDeViL
What gives us the right to police the world? If we would have never helped Israel we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in today. The simple fact is we need to focus on our country and not others. It’s not our job to bring democracy to the rest of the world, in the process we are loosing ours! We should become isolationist plain and simple! We don’t need the rest of the world and their problems. The moment we leave Iraq it’s going to explode into civil war anyway. You saw the guns, grenade launchers and the rest of the Iraqi’s arsenal if they wanted Saddam gone they could have done it easy enough! We can’t go around like Romans and enforce our morals and beliefs on other cultures without expecting the same fate as Rome. Democracy is the end result for the barbarians anyway let them find it and win it in blood as we did.
Originally posted by Frosty
. They said this would not become another Vietnam-type event where there will be no time scale for the soldiers coming home, but this is what it has become.
Originally posted by DiRtYDeViL
What gives us the right to police the world? If we would have never helped Israel we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in today.
The simple fact is we need to focus on our country and not others. It’s not our job to bring democracy to the rest of the world, in the process we are loosing ours!
We should become isolationist plain and simple! We don’t need the rest of the world and their problems.
The moment we leave Iraq it’s going to explode into civil war anyway. You saw the guns, grenade launchers and the rest of the Iraqi’s arsenal if they wanted Saddam gone they could have done it easy enough!
We can’t go around like Romans and enforce our morals and beliefs on other cultures without expecting the same fate as Rome. Democracy is the end result for the barbarians anyway let them find it and win it in blood as we did.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Originally posted by DiRtYDeViL
What gives us the right to police the world? If we would have never helped Israel we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in today.
Israel? o yeah Israel is linked to Vietnam and Korean war and Kosovo and so on. Israel fought their own wars.
Originally posted by Frosty
Osama himself has said on many occasions that one of the biggest reasons he has sentiments against the US is because the US chooses to align itself with Israel. We might not be in Iraq if it weren't for 9/11 and even if we were without 9/11 chances are the insurgency would not be as big.