I'm not. If Iraq is an enemy of the United States, then lay waste to the entire country and let those folks start all over again from the Stone Age. "Nation building" in a Third World dump is not "fighting for something that is right" in any sense of the term.
Personally, I'd be all for nuking the place, paving it over and telling the rest of that part of the world and France, Germany and any other country that gripes to go @#$@# themselves.
Same here. If this country's government isn't willing to at least consider this option (and we know that they aren't), then it never should have sent a single U.S. soldier over there.
But I think that you miss the point as to what we are fighting for. It is not for oil, as so many think. It is not a country that we are fighting, it's a mindset. A mindset that wants to see you and me dead, just because we are not like them. It just happens to be being fought in Iraq. To lay waste to the country and have them rebuild from the Stone age, well, that is punishing the innocent people, while there are few... I would much rather fight them over there than have it going on in this country. But, as you know from recent news, it's everywhere, their mindset is warped and evil and it has to taken on, head on. We are the ONLY country strong enough to do it, as usual.
Hear ya...I don't recall "nation-building" part and parcel of the American Constitution.
I DO know defending the sovereign border IS.
Question: Just when the hell does Saddam get tried and executed? (or are they waiting for him to die of "old age"?)