Liberals are funny. Take NYC liberals. Since they had WTC attack and many knew personally the ones lost, they tend to go nuts when dealing with terrorist involved with the attack. However, all other terrorists are overlooked. Since our country is evenly divided, any parent that let their kids join the military is nuts. Why?!!! Military tactics is no longer made on military principles, but political ones. Carter pardon the draft dodgers, hate to be the parent of a child who was against the war in Vietnam, but went in order to obey the draft laws. Imagine the venom the mother spews on the husband after the loss of their son and followed by the pardon. Even GWB was not immune. Under fire for civilians killed in firefights, rules of engagements were imposed on our troops. Shoot three seconds too early and you are arrested, shoot three seconds too late and one of your buddies can get killed, and by the way you have two seconds to make the life altering decision. Now we trade five tough Taliban commanders for one US Army deserter who got 12 US soldiers killed when they tried looking for him??!!! The US can not engage in a long term war without the political opposition creating political hell, forcing the one in power to undermine the war effort in order to preserve PR and image CYA.
The only way this problem goes away is when the enemy attacks and invades the US homeland. At this point our political class will cut the political games on each other and demand our troops to use whatever means needed to win. In my opinion, God gave us two great ocean barriers, a continental size land in between rich in resources and no major hostile power on our borders. If we stay here, conduct commerce, have a strong military and not get entangled in other people’s affairs, the better we would be. If war comes to the US it is clear cut, because the US homeland has to be physically attacked. Fighting wars overseas to stop something hypothetical (Iraqi WMD, Domino Theory, etc etc etc) don’t seem to cut it due to political games played by our two parties during wars overseas. That is my 2 cents.
Good 2 cents!