When Afghanistan isn’t united to fight against “outsiders”, they go back to fighting amongst themselves.
Never thought I’d say such a thing, but we should pull ALL our troops out of there and let them go back to killing each other.
We need our troops here in America, not only to secure our borders and fellow Americans, but secure us from the oppressive government we now have.
“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war” (Will Durant)
“Yes, Poppa, look what we built. It’s beautiful, and it will last forever so people will see it every time they come to the beach.”
Not surprising coming from a kid: sadly, his sentiments sound like those of hero-worshiping Obama voters who also have seen inconvenient reality intrude on their naive hopes.
You can trace their false reasoning back almost 100 years (it will be 100 years in six more years) to Wilson's claim of “Making the World Safe for Democracy”.
The appalling bloodbaths of World War I and World War II kinda of discredited that idea for a while.
Then there was the push to spread the blessings of democracy to Vietnam. That was a smashing success wasn't it?
Now we have our professional rulers (aka politicians) expounding of the spread of democracy into the Islamic World. Don't expect them to recant when this too blows up in our faces.
Unfortunately, democracy is very much like a hot house flower. It can grow and bloom only under very carefully controlled conditions. You can display it, for short periods of time, almost any where. And while being displayed it brightens any room you find it in. But, when you try to grow it outside the carefully controlled conditions of a hot house it turns ugly and dies more times than not.
Try growing an orchid in the wilds of New England or the Northern Plains for any example.
We are, like it or not, the product of time, space, and culture as it existed in the mid 18th century. Those conditions will not exist again until wooden sailing ships become the highest technology available for international travel and communications.
America was lucky and we are lucky. And that is the bottom line.
Obama had nothing to do with the killing of Gaddaffi. He simply didn’t.
At the same damn time, if one of our troops had caught a surrendering prisoner, even Gaddaffi, and put a bullet in his head, the media would be going bonkers over it. They’d be sending those guys to jail until the trial and they’d throw away the key.
I know it. The Haditha Marines know it. The Hamandiya Marines know it. Our sniper teams know it. Our SpecOps know it.
They would be fighting for their freedom at this very moment in the same way that Staff Sergeant Wuterich is fighting for his. Hillary can say “we came, we saw, he died” and that’s just wonderful. Interpreting his ROEs before battle and saying “shoot first, ask questions later” has Wuterich on trial for years and for his freedom nigh onto a decade now.
It’s say. She’s gloating, and he was trying to keep his young troops from getting killed by being too cautious.
It sickens me the way we treat our own military.
Now it all makes sense! This is where BO will get his billion dollar contribution.... It’s in the bag!
obama ought to google “karma.”
