Posted on 05/18/2015 11:06:25 AM PDT by Starman417
Exactly.
And Megan Kelly need to be called out more for it.
Stupid and illogical question.
Or, we could have invaded the real enemy, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
If we knew then what we know now, that periodically American cities would be consumed in riots, primarily by blacks, wouldn’t it have been better to send them to the African continent after the civil war?
I knew the three major religious factions were never going to get along and propsed that a three state solution was the best option with a coalition of Western oil companies managing the oil resources for the three states. If any of them got out of line, those, profits could have been withheld.
Another option would have been coalition of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait operate the oil fields and refineries.
Our essential error has been to not understand the mind of the middle eastern peoples.
First, according the Bible, you will never be able to tame the Arab (Gen. 16:12). So our assumption that if we remove a brutal dictator will result in a free, ordered democratic process was pure foolishness.
Second, islam is islam. Set them free to follow sharia, and they’ll do sharia in the most delightful ways. We somehow thought that they wouldn’t. Either that, or we knew and and we’re enablers.
Third, any tribal or people group feuds or hatreds in the region go way way back. We think we can bomb and kill a few, and they’ll be peaceful. We have no idea how deep the hate is. And now they hate us.
Fourth, we didn’t have a cohesive stable replacement for Saddam and Momar.
If you believe that the God of Israel is sovereign and is going somewhere with this, then this becomes a most interesting series of events.
The goal of every Islamo-fascist is to recreate the Caliphate. In that regard, Mecca, Medina and Islamabad are sideshows. The heart of the Middle East is Iraq and the heart of Iraq is Baghdad. So if we wanted to prevent Al Qaeda from achieving its goal, we did the exact right thing by invading Iraq and having troops stationed in and around Baghdad.
Put simply: No Baghdad, no Caliphate.
Same reason Vietnam and the Iraq wars did split America. We went from the telegraph and some still photography to Television and Internet. When non-soldiers and families of soldiers are confronted with the horrors and realities of war it is devastating. WWII had federal Committee on Public Information to censure things devastating to morale. The first Iraq war was a bit different as we had a clear defined goal - drive iraq from Kuwait - and most of the fighting took place at range ( lobbing missles at enemy positions). I wonder in 1902 how many Americans knew that we even had troops in the Philippines, what the literacy rate was to be able to read such news, and how was it reported? Anyone got any good suggestions for books that compare war journalism throughout American history?
I agree with you.
This idea that emerged in the 60's that one could invade a country and not kill each and every person that holds a hostile view of you, ascertains defeat. Eventually.
And that takes manpower and the will to kill. On a massive scale.
I wouldn’t go into Iraq.
Now, I know that modern Arabs are fundamentally incapable of being good human beings.
So, they’re not worth the blood we spill.
Nuke ‘em from orbit when necessary.
God dammit. Hussein was firing missiles at our pilots. That should end this whole line of questioning. Firing missiles at our pilots was an ongoing act of war that had to be responded to by going to war against Hussein. End of story.
Hear Hear.. Or Here Here!!!
Except for the swearing,
thank you.
You get it.
The Iraq War is a result of Iraq’s failure to abide by the terms of the cease-fire agreement of the Gulf War.
- Shooting at our planes
- Screwing around with weapons inspectors
- Breaking the no-fly zone agreement
He'd been doing that off and on since the first Gulf war. What made it so important to invade in 2003?
Obama didn't have to had Iraq over to the terrorists. The Iraqis are doing a fine job of that all on their own.
Does he mean, if I knew Barry would become president and pull out our troops, leaving a power vacuum for ISIS and Iran?
The lesson of 9/11 was that weakness in the face of attacks is provocative and will inevitably lead to greater and greater attacks. Bin Laden saw that we weren't responding to Hussein's overt attacks in a meaningful way (e.g. Operation Desert Fox in 1998 was a joke) and recognized that as a failure of will on our part. So Bin Laden took our failure of will as a green light to escalate his attacks against us until the attacks were so large and so damaging that we couldn't ignore them any longer.
Apparently, the lesson of 9/11 is easily forgotten because now a lot of Americans, including many conservatives who should know better, wonder why couldn't have just ignored Hussein thousands of attacks against our pilots.
(4) Iran is between Iraq and Afghanistan. I always suspected we would squeeze them, but we ran out of time before the media won the propaganda war.
I like the list on your homepage. “...3 gods which are gubbermint, genitalia, and global warming.” I know it wouldn’t poetically fit, but I’d argue they have a fourth: drugs.
You absolutely get to the ultimate truth of the matter referencing Gen. 16:12
Only He has the solution to all this and it will be on His terms. Currently, in order to hopefully prod/lead us back on track to Him, He is utilizing Ishmael’s descendants as a form of punishment upon our nation until we, as a people, repent.
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