we "cut and ran" finnally. Check this out before you answer http://www.votersforpeace.us/signUp.jsp?key=1534
2006-10-24 03:06:21 · 11 answers · asked by DAVID S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Yes and the sad thing is no one seems to have learned from it.
2006-10-24 04:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by malcy 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Peace is not the absence of fighting but the presence of justice. The blind eye given the circumstances that if we leave things will go away is naieve...worse, how many MORE will die because of it?
Here are some quotes to ponder:
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. –Mark Twain
The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blessed above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swifly, by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.
---William James
A sense of duty pursues us ever....If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, the duty performed or the duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
--Daniel Webster
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
--Ernest Hemingway
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain
2006-10-24 03:20:01 · answer #2 · answered by paradigm_thinker 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Vietnam will never be repeated and Thank Goodness for that.
As for cutting and running... What do you propose we do, just leave Iraq and let whatever may happen in that region of the world to happen?
If we did, that would be as close to resembling Vietnam as we could ever get. It would be a mistake.
We are there and we need to stay there to try and stabilize that region of the world. I'm not happy about it either but that is just the way it is.
As for Iran, we need to shut down their government. Preferrably by diplomatic means but in case that doesn't happen, we need to do whatever is necessary.
The problems that have existed between the Western way of life and the MiddleEastern way of life has existed for over a half a century. To walk away isn't going to change it and ignoring it is only going to allow the threat to all democratic societies to grow.
We have no options. We have appeased leaders like Ahmadinejad for the past 40 years and where has that gotten us? They demand more of us and have been promoting killing Americans for decades. That won't change and it would not have been any different had we not invaded Iraq.
If we were to cut and run all we are doing is telling them that by keeping pressure on us we are willing to give up. That isn't the worst of it though. By cutting and running we are inviting them to do whatever they want, to whoever they want, anytime they want..
You may want to send that message but I don't.
2006-10-24 03:22:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers... you must be talking about the Civil War. Only 57,000+/- died in Nam.
2006-10-24 08:10:39 · answer #4 · answered by El Cupacabra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope not. What happened in Cambodia and south Vietnam after our surrender was NOT peace.
What happened in Somolia, and continues after we bowed out in the ninties isn't anything resembling peace.
I don't subscribe to the notion that peace is always the best solution, but I hate to see millions butchered because everytime we get bored and leave war early.
2006-10-24 03:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Curt 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I see the democrats want it to be another Vietnam. They seem to believe in their righteousness in that defeat. I guess with their railing, they again want the US defeated so they can confirm their own selfish confirmation they were 'right' on that oneand want to be 'right' on this one.
Read some of Clausewitz "On War" and you will understand what the heck is going on. Those groups lay on the edge of sedition.
2006-10-24 06:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by tjc 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the fallacy of the "limited war" concept, especially since you are still just as dead either way
2006-10-24 03:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
the only difference between this war and Vietnam is that they are not drafting our young people. If they did start the draft, you would see the protests again like we had then. The real shame is the amount of money we are putting into this effort. Think of all the social programs we could be funding if we weren't so bent on killing our soldiers. Your children will inherit this debt.
2006-10-24 03:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by insanediego 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The only thing that is repeating itself is a bunch of peace lovers who have no clue are trying to interfere with us winning the war. Obviously, you have no clue as to what we are up against and what would happen if we quit.
2006-10-24 03:14:26 · answer #9 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋
History definitly repeats itself, if you don't pay attention to it and learn from your mistakes. You cannot beat insurgents who are prepared to die for their cause with soldiers who fight for salary. It has never worked and never will.
2006-10-24 03:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by murray_fortescue 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋