I wonder if he thinks pullouts from wars are ever a good idea or he just feels that a pullout from this war is a policy that would weaken the U.S.
I wonder if that's your backhanded way of insulting the President?
The only war the US has ever engaged in that it should have pulled out from is the Civil War.
Ponder all you want - but it is obvious - you do not cave into terrorists on any ground.
Just what could possibly be the result of us pulling out of Iraq? Could it be the terrorists would take over and have an entire country to further their terrorist agenda?
Would it make the terrorists love us and never choose to kill us again? Afterall, we were not in Iraq or even fighting the terrorists over the years as they mounted attack after attack on the U.S. without penalty. And, did you notice that each attack was worst than the prior one?
And, would it show that the U.S. did not care, afterall, about the people of Iraq and the children in prisons, people being tortured, living under horrible dictatorships?
What about our image then? Huh?
The only hope for the turmoil in the Middle East is the creeping democracy that the oppressed come to see. They then see hope, and that there are other types of governments.
But, the weak anti-war factions always choose to side with our enemies to fight FOR the continued rule of dictators, continued torture, continued abuse of a nation of people. They would give America away to like minded people. People that are willing slaves to the oppressers.
And, the Americans that follow such non-fighters are our enemies within and will sell America and us down the river at the very first chance as they always have.
If those people had been running things in early America, there would be no America today and I will never respect those that are not willing to defend my freedom but instead will not fight but give away our freedom.
Shame on them - they are worthless members of society and will be the downfall of us.
I think he might have mentioned that we should have pulled out of the War of 1812 a little earlier and we should have pulled out of the Spanish-American War of 1898 a little later.
Wars are fought to be won. When you pull out they call that retreat - which means you have been defeated. When you start a war as we have, there are only two ways to go. I am rooting for our troops to win and not be defeated.
When did "pullout" come to substitute for the words retreat and defeat anyway?
Do you think that a pullout from this war is a good idea?
Or do you agree that it would weaken the US? (IMO, that's putting it mildly......he could have said it far more strongly and been completely accurate).
We have gained a dishonorable reputation in the world of bugging out, leaving our allies in the lurch, not fulfilling obligations we've made, and leaving people to the tender mercies of their enemies. The President knows this.
It is VITALLY important that we turn that around and start saying what we mean and meaning what we say.
[I wonder if he thinks pullouts from wars are ever a good idea]
This is why I left a great job in New England in 2002 to live in Europe. Not even the "conservatives" in New England "get it" regarding this war.