Kandahar said:
Funny, as most military personnel have reached the diametrical opposite conclusion about Iraq. The biggest flaw was that we DIDN'T go in with overwhelming force. But I guess you know more about military strategy than they do.
Who is they?
You said that not going in overwhelming force was the biggest flaw. "Overwhelming force" has nothing to do with speed, it's obvious that we should going in with a superior force if we can.
That reply is just one big long confusing mess.
Kandahar said:
Way to duck the question. Here it is again: So you're saying that the United States should overthrow every dictator in the world just because we feel like it?
Way to strawman dude. No one ever said "because we feel like it." I could easily say you want to keep them "because you feel like it."
Why do I have to defend my anti-dictator position? Even more concerning is why do you have a pro-dictator position?
Dictators are oppressive to their people, have been in almost every totalitarian style government. Dictators kill their political opponents and other political prisoners. These people are not criminals, merely protesters, reporters, and sometimes out spoken political figures. They are historically violent to surrounding countries. They always collapse violently unless an outside force fixes it.
Kandahar said:
Another blind assertion with no supporting evidence.
It's only happened a billion times in the past.
US history: quick fixes gone wrong:
-Just use the land, Indians won't care, how many white dude-Indian wars were there? For how long? F***.
-Send a petition to old King George, yeah right.
-We don't need to talk about slavery, lets just put some frick 3/5's deal in with some 20 years thing and then... Civil War 80 years later.
-Alien and Sedition Acts, goodbye federalists.
-We don't need to regulate the economy in the industrial age, whoops.
-Post WWI: Lets just take all of Germany's money, they don't need it.
-Coleridge call in debts in Europe, can you say WWII in 10 years?
-Japans quick fix: Pearl Harbor, whoops.
-and then some more stuff, I'll continue tomorrow if you want.
Kandahar said:
There are plenty of counterexamples as well
Yeah, there all over the place, that's why you named so many.
Oh wait,
you didn't :doh
Kandahar said:
Way to duck the question. Here it is again: What's your alternative suggestion? Let the ayatollahs get nukes, or spend trillions of dollars occupying Iran for years?
Invade, but how? Quick, more casualties, slow, more money.
Do you like people or money better?