OBL is room temperature, and it has zero to do with this issue anyway. Why did you bring it up?
War has many faces. Door-to-door fighting is one of them. Occupying pacified areas is another.
Ronald Reagan loved and respected the troops and they knew it. He got them modern arms,and more importantly, respect. Do you know how much of a military expert he was? He was apparently enough of one to understand the importance of having an effective one.
Nobody gives a RATS ASS about “judgement” in this thread.
This thread is about the propensity of liberals who lie about the military, make up stories about the military, slander the military, all the while knowing absolutely nothing about the military, detesting the military and wishing they could find ways to defund it and steer the money towards ludicrously inept social engineering programs that suck up money with no return on the investment.
Military Industrial Complex? Careers? Profits? What the HELL are you talking about, and how does it relate to the subject at hand?
What you insinuate isn’t Devil’s Advocacy, it’s Moronic Idiocy.
I have nothing but respect for the military. I have seen it abused...that's all...deployed to 'defoliate' Southeast Asia to enhance profits at Dow Chemical Corp. Soldiers ordered NOT to shoot unless shot at first. Enemy (Viet Cong) EMPLOYED on base (Danang) during the day (cutting hair at the base barber shop among other things) then lobbing mortars onto the base at night...Military Police at the perimeter WATCHING them set up the launchers but under orders not to engage. Same with the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
Our troops have performed magnificently in Iraq. I will not stand idly by & watch them eventually deployed to 'foliate' the Middle East desert...planting ivy, then fertilizing & watering same...to enhance the profits of corporations who supply the ivy, fertilizer, and equipment...while the troops are told they're on an endless search for Osama bin Laden.
It took less time for American troops to bring BOTH Hitler's Third Reich & the Empire of Japan to the Surrender Table. Our troops today are just as good (if not better) & definitely better equipped...
For 15 years, I've longed to see the Clintons where they are today: on a gurney being wheeled to the Emergency Room...near political death. There will be plenty of time to deal with Obama (the Mastermind of the Clintonian demise) once Hitlery & Slick Willie have definitely EXPIRED...