There are those who go through life and play the fool. Then there are those who open their mouths and immediately remove all doubt....
hmmm yeah, but this state was Americas best friend when it was under US Control and fighting against Iran during the 80ies. and by the way...there are a lot of countries that sponsor terror groups....are you willing to "democrate" them all or just the ones that have oil and no state of the art army?
Your history is all wrong. We supported Iraq only to the extent that the Iraqi state could survive and not be conquered by Islamic Persia. In so doing, we were acting in our national interest and in the interests of the Europeans. We did not start that war. Saddam did. And we sold Saddam very few weapons. It was mostly the Soviets, the Frogs, and of course, the Krauts.
As to the other goons out there; we're more than willing to undo the bad guys. Sometimes you use different means to achieve the same end. Of course, the Eurotrash would prefer to use no means to achieve a desirable end. The Eurotrash call this self-righteous bullshit "diplomatic" means. Clear-headed folk call this for what it is: appeasement.
you won the war (WOW!!!) ...but if you think that you reduced the danger of terror, youre really naive. now all the bin ladens have another great argument to bust you.
Yes, we did win the war. Which is more than I can say for the Germans or the French, who haven't done much since, say, 1870. We took a stand against evil. The Frogs and the Kraut decided to look the other way. History will hold you in contempt, of course, as it held Chamberlain and Deladier in the wake of the Munich crisis.
The Bin Ladens of this world are coming after us, anyway. So we take a leaf from the Talmud. We get up earlier and go out and kill them first!
We have taken a support element of Al Qaeda off the chessboard. We shall show the Arab world a different way. Maybe not a better way, but a different way. Unlike the Europeans, who would have turned the other way while the boot slowly ground into the face of the Iraqi people in order to do business with the Dictator.
and why did the world take so much time and energy to install the UNO, when bushrumsfeldcheneywolfowitz comes along and ignore it? This is much more dangerous for word peace than any terrorist groups.
The "world" (that is, Roosevelt) installed the UN in the wake of the Second World War in a fit of misguided Wilsonian idealism. The UN has done very little that can be considered constructive since 1945. The reconstruction of Europe and Japan after the war were American projects that had little UN input. However, since the 1960's, the UN has become a squalid dictator's club.
You won the war, but you lost a lot more.PS: Where is the cause for the war?
Oh, just go away and shut your piehole.
You ass-clowns took no stand, have no courage, have no character, and have no honor. You would gladly lick the boot of any strongman who would come along and offer you "peace, land, and bread". You've done so before. You will do so again. This Bruxelles experiment is merely the latest example of Europe's romance with supranational fascism.
Be Seeing You,
Chris