U.S. sees need for "tangible action" on Iran: Israel, page 10

Originally posted by mybigunit

Israel may be our ally but they are also the cause of a lot of our problems because we feel the need to protect them....Let them protect themselves their are big boys.

As far as I am aware, they always have protected themselves. The U.S. has never sent troops to Israel. During Israel's sixty years of existence they have been involved in several wars with their arab neighbors; in every instance Israel has come out on top and with no help from anyone else.

and defending ourselves from lunatics is Ok but when has Iran invaded our country? When has Iraq? When did Vietnam? When did N Korea? When these guys invade I say kick their a$$ but until then stay our of their business. The taliban did invade and they got what they deserve.

First of all, we are not at war with Iran, yet. We are not at war with Iraq; Iraqis are fighting and dying right alongside our own troops because they want more than what they had under Saddam and more than what they would have under a religious theocracy should Iran or other Muslim fundamentalists and extemists gain a foothold in their country.

There is a strong case for saying that maybe we should not have invaded Iraq when we did but once we were actually there the Iraqi people as a whole embraced the idea of democracy and for the first time in their lives participated in the first free elections that country had ever known. Have you all forgotten the risks of life and limb that the Iraqi people took by even going to polls? But go they did and in droves! Remember all the "purple fingers"? Most of the Iraqi people don't want us to leave yet and most are grateful for the freedom they have now. I think we should start bringing troops home and let the Iraqis look after their own future but if we had not been there they would still be suffering and cowering under Saddam.

We were not at war with South Korea, we were there because South Korea asked us to help them defend against an invasion by N Korea and China. There was nothing shamefull about Korea and because of the US help they received, S Korea is still an independent and sovereign nation.

We initially entered the Viet Nam war for the same reasons, protecting S. Viet Nam from invsasion and ocupation by N. Viet Nam. I won't go into an in-depth discussion of why things fell apart in that conflict because it would take forever and there are about as many versions as people who hold them. The main point in every case was that we were trying to protect the little guy who was being attacked and overcome by the neighborhood bully. Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel are all the little guys and Iran, Syria and terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas are the bullies.

If we don't help when the little guys get attacked, then who will? Exactly, no one. What's really sad is that most of you will say, "so what" or "who cares", and of course, that's my point, exactly.