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Originally Posted by Raven
Our own Nation needs rebuilding too and should take total precedence
over a nation that HATES everything AMERICAN.
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"a nation that HATES everything AMERICAN"
The thing is, it's not remotely true to say the nation hates everything about us. When I was there, we were treated klike heroes in many places, the locals could not contain there affection towards us. It's the monsters that run things that hate us.
Should we risk American lives to help people that live in Iraq? That is a deep, profound, important question. I would say yes, but reasnable people can disagree. We can't save everybody, and I wouldn't want to be the one to decide which lives we save and which we don't.
The US military did incalculable good there. A few years ago, they had free, stable elections in that country, and no one elected the Islamic militants to any position that mattered. It looked very, very promising.
Poof.
The question of whether or not we risk American lives is a difficult question. What is easy, is the decisikon to ensure that AFTER we lost thousands of lives to make thinngs better, that we honor the fallen (and their families) by ensuring that the progress doesn't vanish. That's what appears to be happening.
Many Americans are OK with the notion of putting themselves at risk to bring freedom to those who don't have it. No one should be OK with watching that hard-earned freedom vanish before our eyes, because that means it was all for nothing.
I don't get how anyone can say they think Obama is the least bit competent at anything, unless they are on the dole. I just don't get it. I don't think he could be doing more long-term damage than he is doing.