God bless you and your Son, I thank him for his service. Unfortunately, you have been misled by the disinformation campaigns of the New Left (let's abbreviate it NLDC).
In order to understand what the New Left is, you will have to start googling the phrase "New Left" and researching, following links and reading.
Unfortunately failure to send correct assets is and equal politician flaw. My son was in Gulf War I, in Saudi Arabia a week after the Kuwait invasion by SH. He was there 8 months and took part in the assault into Iraq. In December 2002 I asked him how many troops he felt should be sent in by Bush. He said 450,000. At the time Shinsecki was in the process of being fired for arguing we should have over 300,000. Then after a year of a big mess in Iraq, Bremmer said we should have had 1/2 million. Siiigh!!
Look the loss ratio, that is key: America kicked Iraq's @ss. Part of the NLDC is to get America to back down, second guess themselves, worry about spending too much, worry about potential lives lost.
Now that my son is in Afghanistan AGAIN (spent 8 months there in 2006), I am really pixxed that we didn’t finish the job in Afghanistan instead of the Iraq side trip.
Think about that nation - it is too backward to have military targets other than individual Taliban for the most parts. We ran out of bombardment targets quickly. The Taliban and associated groups can move from country to country. Unless they were completely eradicated, they will always come back; they have modern weapons and are determined, agressive and tricky, and Afghanistan is a big country with places to hide. The Afghan people are all muslims, but perhaps would be ambivolent to foreigners because they are so simple. They do not have the concept of rule of law that Western Civilization has so Afghanistan will never be "safe" for Westerners. The trouble is we can train them to be able to keep out foreign fighters by giving them modern ideas and military techniques, but at the end of the day, revolutionary ideas are pushed into societies by NLDP anyway - after all, they've invaded America as well. They actually need the Gospel more than anything else.
All politicians have their own agenda. We know Obama’s, but I fear that Romney is too eager to bloody the nose of Russia (”our number one enemy”) and Iran. My son has two years to go on his 20, and I pray he makes it out in one piece.
God bless your son and thank him again for his service. The core of Russian leadership continues to oppose us in most every country, as does islam, and that war is fought in seemingly senseless places and very often through proxies. This has been the pattern for decades. It's complex to say the least. Without a doubt, having a man in the WH is who is part of the New Left is much more dangerous than having someone who is not. We just have to remember that the New Left and globalist, intellectual elites comprise thousands of what are called NGO's or non-governmental organizations. All over the world they are actually influencing governments and operating with virtually no awareness by the general public, whose votes are nowhere near as influential as the NGO influence operations. Most of these organizations are permeated by the New Left.
Here is a post to get you started.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2951258/posts
If you look at who the players, you will see that the revolution was externally manufactured and the revolutionaries themselves are mere pawns. This has been the case with numerous revolutions over the past 20 years that came and went so quickly in the U.S. news cycle that hardly anyone knows or cares about them.
Also, be sure to visit
http://www.cfr.org/
Be sure to look at the About section, look for lists of names for boards of directors, leadership and members. You'll see that there is contact and shared interests between governments and big business. While the U.S. has a huge influence, business interests and "causes" tend to span national boudaries in the realm of bodies like cfr. Most often such NGO's are started with good intentions but go horribly wrong as their arrogance blinds them to their immorality and wrongness.
CFR is one of the most influential policy-making institutions in terms of foreign policy, but there are literally thousands of these unelected NGOs pursing globalist, elitist interests around the globe. Notice their agendas. Also, you will note that they are firmly embedded into the U.S. political landscape.
I give all this information in the hope that you will learn more about what is going on behind the scenes and that knowledge might give you comfort as well as a call to spread the truth to those in the military who are not aware of the ultimately anti-American New Left and how it has permeated the Democratic party and much of American society.
Thank you for your detailed and informative comment. I spent the day preping for Sandy, and will look at your links while I am rained/blown indoors. I have had some NGO experience. Worked a while for one with multiple Latin Amrican offices. Rumor had it that we were a CIA front, but I never could really tell. This was around 40 years ago. My father was a white collar trade unionist, but spent most of his spare time fighting attempts by Communists to take over his union and the Port of New York right after WWII. He was on the New York Port Council. So I think I have more than the average awareness of how complex things can be.
The situation with Russia is also complex. They have all those former Soviet, Islamic countries on their southern border, so they have to walk a careful line too. I hope that Romney is aware of just how complex that is too, before he does/says something that will increase our problems in that part of the world, and get my son in another war.