Posted on 03/11/2023 5:45:38 AM PST by JonPreston
Ukraine is a war worth fighting. We have no men there getting killed. We just send money and weaponry. Iraq was 100% useless war. Afghanistan was worth going in for 1-2 years to smash Bin Laden and the Taliban. Then get out. Instead, Afghanistan devolved into a 20 year war and meals on wheels program to bring them Democracy, and to free and educate the Afghani women. This is a fool's errand in Muslim nations. Let them have their dictators and wacko fundamentalists.
All we want from Muslim nations is oil and gas that we and Europe and Japan, Korea, Taiwan pay for.
I agree with all that you just said.
Or else what?
Don’t they have GoFundMe in Canada? 😏
I posted what I am doing this summer (2 weeks beach vacation). You reply with 16mm homemade films from 35 years ago. LoL!
LOL.
Neocon should have been a negative as early as the Reagan years, when in true Trotskyite fashion they spent their energy waging war on non-Neo conservatives in order to consolidate their own power and influence.
They succeeded, becoming the influence peddlers of the Bush presidencies, especially Dubya’s.
“They really thought the success in rebuilding Europe and modernizing Japan after WW2 were repeatable in Iraq and even Afghanistan.”
The verdict is in.
Only fools believe that religion is irrelevant and that thousand year old Islamic cultures can be turned into Kansas. Just invade, paste on a veneer of voting and blue jeans and voila!
Germany is a cousin of the United States. The same basic culture, Christendom.
Japan was open to and had been trying to imitate Western political culture since the 1880s. It didn’t have to be imposed upon them after their militarism was defeated.
“Saddam maybe?”
That war fed the hubris that we need to be Global Policeman. Saddam spent 10 years warring with Iran and got nowhere. He was an admirer of Joe Stalin, not radical Islam.
“...was that the United States could not simply topple the old regimes and leave chaos in their wake.”
Which is EXACTLY what Bush and Obama did.
Boot is NOT Canadian. He’s a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US. You must be confusing him with David Frum.
No, we're talking about Zeeper Canuck_Conservative who I affectionately call Cuck Canuck.
Once a red Trotskyite always s red traitor.
Traditional conservatives, such as U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, wanted to teach the Taliban and Saddam Hussein a lesson
and then depart each country as quickly as possible.
1. a relatively light approach as attributed to Rumsfeld here (though it had to be powerful yet within the limits of what that power could do), and
2. A heavy approach, which is essentially colonization, which we would never have the commitment to do.
Traditional conservatives, such as U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, wanted to teach the Taliban and Saddam Hussein a lesson
and then depart each country as quickly as possible.
1. a relatively light approach as attributed to Rumsfeld here (though it had to be powerful yet within the limits of what that power could do), and
2. A heavy approach, which is essentially colonization, which we would never have the commitment to do.
Too little, to late. FU Max Boot.
Hush, Russian troll.
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