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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Had the United States simply sat back and allowed the Ayatollahs of Iran to annex Iraq and then continue their Islamic crusade at will from there I imagine we would have been fighting another full-on world war by now, or at the very least we would be in a cycle of endlessly appeasing the Ayatollahs that would have eventually led to such a massive confrontation as that. They fully believed they were doing the will of Allah and were throwing walls of children and men and old people at their enemy, caring not at all about the resulting carnage...

It is really good that the Ayatollahs were stopped, and stopped early on.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Your logic...just don't get it. The arab world does not have the population base to support any sort of war against the west. Random acts of violence dont constitute a war.

Damn good point. Thank you. But can you not anticipate the reply? "Ooooo, some terrorist will carry a nuclear bomb across the Mexican border." Oh wait, someone already said that. Probably on the back of a camel no doubt.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Vincent, it's like drugs, "just say no."
If we simply refuse to get involved in the internal affairs of foregn countries (like we should be doing) we won't be sending Troops all over the globe.
Some people on the far left seem to think that somehow we should be getting involved in stopping "ethnic cleansing"  or..."genocide prevention", or feeding people. I don't want to buy them dinner!
That's not what you swear to when you take the oath.
Besides, they need to "thin the heard" in a lot of countries and our Troops are not "peacekeepers" or "social workers" for the use of foreign countries who need to start solving their own problems. And, machete fights make for great t.v. watching!
I couldn't care less if China were to take back Taiwan, of course our gov't would try to tell us that we ,..."have interests" there but we all know what that means, "big business" has "interests" there not American Citizens unless you own stock in one of the corporations that has factories there.
So our Troops are supposed to be fighting "corporate wars?"
And what about all those "treaties" that presidents signed 20, 30, 40 years ago swearing to "protect" foreign countries who were attacked? Was that really a wise thing to do? "Ok, boys, we're going to war to fight on the side of Macheteland because George H.W. Bush signed a "treaty" with them twenty two years ago!" We need to simply get out of them.
That's one of the big problems with our govt., they want to get us "involved" in things but when it comes time to get out of something they *never* want to get us out, and that goes for everything they do!
"No Sargeant, you're not fighting for the U.S. you're fighting for General Motors, Alcoa, and Walmart."