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George W Bush was not the best speaker but I thought he delivered an excellent speech on January 31, 2006.
Right. As you said, they represent the American people.
Yes, as we have seen the American people supported the war in Iraq. I don't really see any debate here.
The American people were wrong.
Their real crime was re-electing Obama. There is no excuse for this.
Apparently they were for all this if the The President, Congress, the Senate and the people favored it and people should understand the cost. In fact it was a very well run war with a casualty rate that was far below any other war that had been going on for this number of years.
I just can't agree with the war because I don't see it ever being "winnable." It's a war that will never end. In fact, it's a "war" that could even create more enemies.
At first, people supported it because we had just been attacked and were pissed and frightened. Then, people started to realize that it's a really stupid war.
The war was absolutely winnable until it became politicized, something that's remarkably easy to do in much of the western world these days. The enemies were always out there, as we can see from 9/11 itself and other attacks, and because of the weakness of the media, and the left of course, the West has become far more vulnerable to further attacks. This is just the beginning of the real war now and America will have difficulty in responding.
Anything you can do to blame the Bad Stuff on liberals, you will. Sad and pathetic partisan hackery.
Are you going to continue to whine or try to prove me wrong? If you have nothing worthwhile to add, you should just move on. You actually epitomize liberals and it seems that you somehow sense that.
Right.I don't even know what the hell this means.
Broke Iraq?It wasn't liberals who broke Iraq in the first place.
Historians don't think that Mr. Bush was a good President. They have placed him in the bottom third of all American Presidents.
The war was absolutely winnable until it became politicized, something that's remarkably easy to do in much of the western world these days. The enemies were always out there, as we can see from 9/11 itself and other attacks, and because of the weakness of the media, and the left of course, the West has become far more vulnerable to further attacks. This is just the beginning of the real war now and America will have difficulty in responding.
Historians don't think that Mr. Bush was a good President. They have placed him in the bottom third of all American Presidents.
Our actions do create more terrorists when we inflict collateral damage to innocent lives with cruise missiles and drones, rather than using bullets against a seen enemy. Both Clinton and Obama seem to be doing their best to create terrorists.How do you win a war with no defined enemy? We cannot possibly kill and capture ALL the terrorists. There are new ones born every day. In fact, I wonder if our actions might perhaps create even MORE terrorists?
We needn't kill or capture all terrorists, we need only to kill enough to discourage the movement. Terrorism was under greater control a few years ago then it is now and that's largely because of retreats from both Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course releasing terrorists in this latest deal will certainly give them greater confidence.How do you win a war with no defined enemy? We cannot possibly kill and capture ALL the terrorists. There are new ones born every day. In fact, I wonder if our actions might perhaps create even MORE terrorists?
I think our problem is we are too coddled as a society. The culture terrorists come from only understand authoritarianism, and death as a punishment for not falling in line. Our actions do little to detour them, and primarily embolden them. We need to either step up our wartime actions to killing rather than capturing the enemy, or walk away and let them fight each other.We needn't kill or capture all terrorists, we need only to kill enough to discourage the movement. Terrorism was under greater control a few years ago then it is now and that's largely because of retreats from both Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course releasing terrorists in this latest deal will certainly give them greater confidence.
We are acting out of fear, seeming to hope that being nice to them will encourage terrorists to be nice to us. And while we debate over whose fault all of this Islamism continues to grow. We are 1938 Europeans,willfully ignoring the message being sent to us.
I think our problem is we are too coddled as a society. The culture terrorists come from only understand authoritarianism, and death as a punishment for not falling in line. Our actions do little to detour them, and primarily embolden them. We need to either step up our wartime actions to killing rather than capturing the enemy, or walk away and let them fight each other.
We needn't kill or capture all terrorists, we need only to kill enough to discourage the movement. Terrorism was under greater control a few years ago then it is now and that's largely because of retreats from both Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course releasing terrorists in this latest deal will certainly give them greater confidence.
We are acting out of fear, seeming to hope that being nice to them will encourage terrorists to be nice to us. And while we debate over whose fault all of this Islamism continues to grow. We are 1938 Europeans,willfully ignoring the message being sent to us.
Our actions do create more terrorists when we inflict collateral damage to innocent lives with cruise missiles and drones, rather than using bullets against a seen enemy. Both Clinton and Obama seem to be doing their best to create terrorists.
Apparently they were for all this if the The President, Congress, the Senate and the people favored it and people should understand the cost. In fact it was a very well run war with a casualty rate that was far below any other war that had been going on for this number of years.
Their real crime was re-electing Obama. There is no excuse for this.
I can think of something that happened in 2001 that was more than "a small crisis". It also had a GREAT deal to do with the economic downturn.
Yes, there are but, as many keep explaining, not all Muslims are terrorists. We would need to work with the democracies and, more importantly, those Muslims who are also fighting terrorism, who do not want Sharia Law imposed on them. But after we abandoned both Iraq and Afghanistan and left them to their own meager devices, can any Muslim leader really trust us anymore? And despite the reluctance of Americans to get involved the world still needs American leadership. We have to demonstrate that we are serious about this 'War On Terrorism" but so far we have not done that.There are terrorists all over the world though. I don't see this being a realistic goal.
There you go. Bring up a totally unrelated issue.
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