The sovereign territory of nuclear powers whose ports and air space are necessary for your own operations in a neighboring country are not as easily disregarded as armchair quarterbacks might suppose.
You use a lot of words to say you won't support any wars that aren't Crusades formally declared by Congress, requiring total mobilization, and fought by a draftee army of millions. Colin Powell beat you to it.
This war is not lost. People who get on Free Republic and piss and moan about how sorry the Commander-in-Chief is while the war is still being fought are a lot like people who sit in the home stands and boo the home team because they are behind. The game ain't over yet.
Woulda shoulda coulda finger pointing serves whose agenda? Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.
“Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.”
Hogwash.
You want to win? Then arm the sides we can tolerate in Iraq and let them do the fighting and the killing. We refuse to do that.
You want to lose? Stay the course until the collapsing political will to continue the fight in the US causes the Democrats to rip the support out from underneath you, and the whole thing falls to pieces.
There are people whose concepts of honor and dishonor, right and wrong, truth and lies, loyalty and treason are so radically different from mine that it becomes increasingly difficult to pretend to have any respect for them.
Woulda shoulda coulda finger pointing serves whose agenda? Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.” So true! Each and every word so true. Can I ping all those who deserve to be pinged?