One would think so.
Therefore, why did we leave Iraq, and our Iraqi friends?
Do you really think a country can be stabilized into a system of republican democracy in 10 years? Seems absurd.
We rescued the Iraqis and then abandoned them.
What kind of friends are we?
Certainly not the kind that can be trusted.
Ask the Vietnamese. Same thing.
"We've got your back. Oh, but sorry, we've had a change in policy, so now you're on your own to die or whatever."
Great friends, aren't we?
yeah we do suck in that regard because well - we’ve lost our spine
or rather most democrats and to many republicans don’t seem to be
very American. Yes what you said makes all those lives lost in the
Iraq war so pointless in the macro view - man it makes me ill to
think thats true but it as time moves forward it seems to be the case.
Further it has made me pretty anti-war because war sucks and it doesn’t
seem like we have had the mentality it takes as a nation to win a war.
Seriously what was the last war we won Panama with Noriega or helping out
the Kosovo precursors to al queda and attacking Serbia the christian country
that has been for centuries taking the brunt and holding off the muslim’s
never ending attempt to get to Europe and out of that cursed desert crap land
called the fertile crescent.