Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Originally posted by svt4stv:
i think he opened up a nice big fat can of worms and its still going to be a big mess well after he's gone.



I gathered from his SoTU address that we were in for a long fight. Seems to be true thus far, and yes, I expect it to continue for another 10 years. Maybe not in Iraq, but the fight will continue until there is no haven or recruiting ground for terrorists.

Furthermore, remember WTC 1993? How 'bout the USS Cole? How about the embassy attacks? My thinking is that somebody else opened the can, & GW is the one president who had the balz to pick it up to throw it in the garbage. He's doing the heavy lifting for all the others that left the dirty little secret under the rug.





Yep, he's some kinda man.
Maybe all those non-heavy lifters(including George Sr.) knew that taming the Middle East is like trying to rope an elephant with dental floss. Sr's war was a different situation. The hard targets were known and clearly visible(for the most part applies to all of these),the bad guys wore uniforms so we knew who to shoot at and we didn't have to stay(mistake). We got to watch bombs fly in thru windows and it was all very high tech. It was neat, clean, fast and that's the way Americans like it. I'm not arguing right or wrong here I'm just saying. Now we have a guerrilla war on our hands, something that they are better at then we are. What do I base this on? The fact that they know who we are and we don't know who they are. Our soldiers are easily identifiable which makes them a target every minute of every day. Our technology can't help us differentiate between the good guys and the bad because they all look just like the people we're there to liberate. While we're trying to figure out who we're fighting soldiers are wounded and dying everyday. The American public(Rep or Dem) won't stand for years of prolonged bloodshed.
Unless all of the governments of the Middle East come together to fight this problem it will never end. We can't win this kind of war...we can only hope to hand it off and make it someone else's problem.
The money would have been better spent securing things here at home.
My personal experience is that thinking with your balls rather than your brain more often than not just leads to trouble!

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