[BLS]

Would you have left Europe in December 1945 because it was difficult and let the chips fall???????????????
Would you have left the Pacific in February 1945 after Iwo Jima because it was difficult and let the chips fall??????????????????????????????

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You are honestly going to compare one nation of less than 30 million, most of which are non-combatants to WW2? Is that why we, the greatest military force on the planet are still stuck there with too many of our finest playing the role of target?

[smoketree]

Uh yeah I am going to compare them.
What was guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetak, Pelileu, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Ojinawa? How many thousands did we lose fighting the enemy in those really small places that were hijacked by the enemy? The residents of those places were not hostile to us yet the battles were far more fierce and bloody because the enemy was there.
Same for Europe. The French were not nazi's but we fought on their soil did we not?

[TeleStraightShooter]

"Let the chips fall where they may" Playing ostrich will usually come back and bite our Republic.

While we were not fully vested in Afghanistan after our CIA helped kick out the USSR, we all know were the chips fell there and 9.11 was an indirect result.

The chips also fell when Saigon fell and about a million died. But your good with that, right?