Could you imagine if in the middle of a hockey match they changed the rules? Would you still be playing hockey if they took away the puck and replaced it with a tennis ball? And then they take away the nets and replace them with basketball hoops. Then a large, angry bull is shoved out onto the ice. What are you playing and how do you score it?Today Salon invites us to Leave the Muslim world alone.
The suggestion that we now leave a bunch of fanatical mass murderers alone may strike most Americans as cowardly and morally contemptible. But what we want are results, not self-righteous campaigns that make matters worse. Bush's righteous war has failed.The war against terror that we are waging in the Middle East has not failed. It couldn't fail. In order to win, clear guidelines of what constitutes a success would have needed to exist at the beginning of the conflict and remain as the goal until the conflict ended. Without the terms that define a clear victory, we can't win. We can't lose either. We don't fight for anything, we just fight. Most of the time we can't even do that because we're acting as a 'peace keeping force'. Confused?
I feel certain that having the answers to this conflict requires a completely delusional mind. Good thing I don't have a clue.
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You're right. There is no defined goal to win or lose. Bush expected the Iraqi's to flood the streets in celebration after the wicked witch was dead and cover our soldiers in flowers. Once reality set in it became oh shit!
I've said this a hundred times-we had no reason to invade Iraq. Afghanistan yes, Saudi Arabia-definitlely (but the Bush's are too much on their payroll).
The Salon article states, We have turned an entire region, and the adherents of one of the three largest religions in the world, against America and everything that it represents, including democracy. This is a false statement. Muslims already hated us, remember 911, the USS Cole, the first World Trade Center Bombing... I'm all for kicking Muslim ass, but the right one. If we call everthing part of the "war on terror" pretty soon it will lose it's meaning.
I don't know what the answer is, but I know Iraq is currently a huge waste of our miltary resources that could be used to fight real terrorists.
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