"The best way to reach that world is debatable, but it has been proved over the last 30 years that appeasement, relative to the mid east, will not work."
Appeasement won't work, but why aren't we using the advanced weaponry we spend BILLIONS on every year?
We could incinerate a city from 50,000 feet, but we choose to fight the battles in such a way as to give the enemy a more fair chance.
WHY?
Iraq is a country of 25 million. At most, the insurgency was made up of about 5K Baathists and another 5K foreign fighters.
Your solution -- that we should incinerate their cities -- is not my solution.
"Appeasement won't work, but why aren't we using the advanced weaponry we spend BILLIONS on every year?"
HUH? WE've been doing exactly that, using tanks, air strikes, predators, and Marine snipers ... AS NEEDED.
"We could incinerate a city from 50,000 feet, but we choose to fight the battles in such a way" ... AS TO NOT DESTROY A COUNTRY WE ARE TRYING TO REBUILD. It's not a hard concept to grasp: We want Iraq to succeed, the terrorists want Iraqi democracy to fail.
We win if we kill the terrorists. We DONT win if Iraqi cities are levelled.