[martin_fierro]

[Skooz]

25 years ago, I stayed away from a friend's younger brother who wanted to play PanzerBlitz because I was afraid the little stinker would beat me and My friend would never let me live it down.

I avoided that war.

[day10]

[cripplecreek]

That mars/ saturn thing seems a little beyond our capabilities. I say let them hammer it out on their own.

[Coop]

You seem to have a one-track mind, Jim. I'll save my comments for someone a bit more open-minded.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=123395

[AntiGuv]

A side-benefit of going to war with China would be that we could cancel the hundreds of billions that we owe them (so long as we win). We'd be afflicted with their whining about that for centuries though....

[pissant]

I'd avoid the kids neighborhood bottle rocket wars if you don't own a good pair of protective goggles. Other than that, can't think of any...

[CougarGA7]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

[Sloth]

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[NRA1995]

We have some lovely parting gifts for you; thank you for playing "ZOT!"

[rdb3]

Solicitation.

[mike182d]

How do you determine which wars we can win and which wars are likely to backfire on us?

If a man's wife is being attacked by an armed guman, does he calculate the cost, or the probability of success in fighting against him?

We are slowly becoming a utilitarian society void of all virtue and honor at the hands of spineless Dems.

[Logic n' Reason]

Better to ask, "what wars would you agree to engage in personally, or send your only son to fight in?"

I think the answers would be more telling if they were honest.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I would venture to say the only war in the history of the US not worth fighting was the Spanish-American War. A lot of people might put Vietnam in that catergory, however, Vietnam was not a fight against even North Vietnam. It was one of the battlefields in the Cold War.
To ask which war we would stay out of, none of those countries listed had every last diplomatic angle tried, like Iraq had.

[Maceman]

I would definitely have stayed out of the Balkans. I think Clinton committed a war crime in Kosovo.

I would stay out of any war we do not have the resources to win, or where we cannot achieve our desired post-war objctives (such as invading mainland China).

I would stay out of any war that does not direcly aim to protect the security of the US.

I would support any war effort that would weaken or destroy Islamic terrorism, which means I MOST DEFINITELY support our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I would support a war against any Islamic government (provided, again, that we can win and manage the post war environment). I don't know enough about our military to know whether we could successfully invade Iran. If we could, I would be for it. But based on what I have read, I don't believe we could succeed there.