Bring em Home
I was a strong supporter of the Bush administration policy to crush and depose the tribes of Afghanistan and Iraq. My vision was to kill as many of the people in these places as was necessary to make them beg us to stop. In other words, the same approach that we used in every other war in America's history.
However our will failed before we broke the will of the people in either tribe. We began nation building well before victory. In other words, we lost the war against both tribes. There was no common will therefore there never could be success.
I am not naive, I never expected an American victory along the lines of our defeat of the axis powers in WW2. But I believed that America could teach the world that we were willing to bleed to protect ourselves and our interests. That would at least give the global thugs some pause when they considered some outrage against civilization.
All cultures are not morally equal, as some believe. Tyranny, rape rooms, ritual beheading and justice by wood chipper are different than Western cultural norms. I wish tribal culture was better but frankly, if the people in these places want to put up with that crap, it is their perogative. I don't want this behavior in the West and I will fight and die to prevent it from spreading here.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. We tried to show other cultures a better way to live but it takes centuries to change human nature. We never stood a chance at nation building. All we could do is kill a generation of male barbarians to reduce the risk to our culture.
Instead, we ruined our culture and now we get to suffer the consequences. We showed the world just how weak and indecisive we truly are. We will reap the whirlwind.
Our men and women in the military are the finest is the world, and maybe the finest in the history of mankind. They are a finely honed knife capable of cleanly cutting the work. But our government has used our military as a hammer and has broken the blade. We have wasted their blood and lives for nothing. A great shame on us.
I believe we should withdraw our combat troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and probably South Korea. They have become cannon fodder just as in Vietnam. We have no will to win so their blood is wasted trying to change human nature. Tis better to let the natives fight and die to advance their civilization.
However our will failed before we broke the will of the people in either tribe. We began nation building well before victory. In other words, we lost the war against both tribes. There was no common will therefore there never could be success.
I am not naive, I never expected an American victory along the lines of our defeat of the axis powers in WW2. But I believed that America could teach the world that we were willing to bleed to protect ourselves and our interests. That would at least give the global thugs some pause when they considered some outrage against civilization.
All cultures are not morally equal, as some believe. Tyranny, rape rooms, ritual beheading and justice by wood chipper are different than Western cultural norms. I wish tribal culture was better but frankly, if the people in these places want to put up with that crap, it is their perogative. I don't want this behavior in the West and I will fight and die to prevent it from spreading here.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. We tried to show other cultures a better way to live but it takes centuries to change human nature. We never stood a chance at nation building. All we could do is kill a generation of male barbarians to reduce the risk to our culture.
Instead, we ruined our culture and now we get to suffer the consequences. We showed the world just how weak and indecisive we truly are. We will reap the whirlwind.
Our men and women in the military are the finest is the world, and maybe the finest in the history of mankind. They are a finely honed knife capable of cleanly cutting the work. But our government has used our military as a hammer and has broken the blade. We have wasted their blood and lives for nothing. A great shame on us.
I believe we should withdraw our combat troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and probably South Korea. They have become cannon fodder just as in Vietnam. We have no will to win so their blood is wasted trying to change human nature. Tis better to let the natives fight and die to advance their civilization.
posted by lugh lampfhota at 9:12 AM
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