EDIT: THIS POST SHOULD BE VIEWED AS A QUESTION,MORE THAN A STATEMENT.
Hey all,
Miles, thanks for the reference to the Art of War.Also, I've read Chuck's op-ed stuff here and there, he's a smart guy and is over looked. FWIW, there have been a lot of really good conversations on some of the "Liberal Media" shows pointing out what a HUGE Problem Iran is and it's not taken lightly by the legit people reporting what I call News. You make very good points about the danger facing us and there can be no doubt that it's real. I just want you to know that I'm with ya on that.
About anything being W's fault. I understand that it's not his "fault" that a bunch of sick minded people want to kill us. I also realize that a whole bunch of things he's blamed for have nothing what so ever to do with him. I'll just restate my point: He is not now,nor will he ever be equipped to deal with these problems. He just is not a leader. He can't think for himself and is far far away from being a conservative.
That being said, I'm not one to stand by and let Iran develop Nukes. I'm saying, because we've made the choice we have already in going into Iraq, we have put ourselves in a bad position to deal with Iran effectively. We WILL now have the world, for the most part on our side when it comes down to dealing with Iran. Our Credibility gap though, has and will slow us down. Hopefully, when we decide to move on Iran, we will do so in a way that drives home a couple points that used to be unquestionably American but have been called into question over the last few years. This has to do with how and when we use our Military.
It used to be rather clear that we would not start our killing Machine unless it was going to be used in an overwhelming way. In other words, I think we should have said, " After 911, we want Sadam gone. Therefore, he will be gone. We are sending 450,000 troops into Iraq to do this and it will be done right." This, of course, is not what happened. We have fucked this up badly,by ANY measurement.It has been mishandled, I hope everyone understands this now. Again, there is NOTHING about how we did this, that worked. Nothing.
So, My big hope is, if we use our army, the people who decide how to do this are NOT the people who are there now...
Look, if we as a nation,decide to deal with Iran and we have Europe and most of the rest of the world on our side, then we should make short work of it ,, right? I mean, if there's a holy War coming whether we like it or not, then we should get moving.
I don't have the answer. If the truth IS, that no matter what we say or how hard we try to "talk" or "Teach", we will be forced into war, then we should start acting like it's WWIII. We should be dumping $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ into the war machine, getting into the country should be real hard, and we should Go get ALL the dictators in the world. We should say, " we are going to war with who ever we damn well choose. If you are not a democracy, we are coming to kill you now."
We either deal, or we don't.
I don't have the Answer. Sorry.
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