2007-10-29 14:23:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Win or lose, this war sucks. I would rather see our men and women come stateside and let the Middle East go to hell in a basket, then watch the gasoline prices go down at the pump. Yeap.
2007-10-29 15:08:27 · update #1
There are no winners in this war. Just millions of psychologically scarred human beings--on both sides.
And just what have you accomplished? Absolutely NOTHING.
2007-10-29 14:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We have been fighting the Battle of Iraq in the GWOT for, what, 4 years now? We've had between 3 and 4 thousand deaths in this battle. Look at some of the battles of WW2. We had more casualties than that in the first hours of D-Day. We had over 20, 000 casualties in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and that lasted only 36 days.
Now, given that during the last 20 years we have been attacked repeatedly (Khobar Towers, African Embassies, the Cole, and the WTC), what makes you think if we "accept defeat" that the Islamofascists will stay "over there" and leave us alone? I believe that if we "accept defeat" we will have encouraged further attacks over here. I would much rather our military deal with those folks over there rather than here.
2007-10-29 15:06:03 · answer #2 · answered by mikeb72654 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Changing tactics and shifting ground is not accepting defeat. It is adapting to reality.
Those who talk about withdrawal from Iraq are not just the knee jerk pacifists. There are many of us who feel that we are fighting the wrong war in the wrong place, and need to use our resources more wisely.
Would it be better to pour more troops and equipment into the charnel house of Iraq, or to regroup and hit the terrorists somewhere more effective, with weapons that can actually hurt them?
2007-10-29 17:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You probably support our/the rest of the world's decision not to "interfere" in the strife in Rwanda. or maybe you think we should have stayed out of the problem all those Jewish people had in Germany in the 1940's. Perhaps we should have told France to use their own troops and we'd send them some money when they were being bombed then, too. We could have saved alot of American lives by NOT storming Normundy. of course, the French would now be speaking German. Instead of Perrier, we'd be guzzling Gerolsteiner mineral water.
Thank you U.S. veterans.
2007-10-29 14:36:25 · answer #4 · answered by FH&L 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
There is no defeat the point was given clear across now it's time to get out.
2007-10-29 14:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What part of saving our sovereign nation don't you understand? Since June there has been a 70% drop in violence in Iraq. Military deaths have and will always be a fact of life. The amazing thing is that we don't have to draft these people, they do it because of who they are. They have more compassion in their pinkie then you have in your entire body. My father in law served in WWII and believe you me he lost a lot of more friends then anyone serving right now will ever know. He accepted the fact that he might not make it back, he doesn't talk about it much because of all the horrible things he had to see, but believe you me, he has sacrificed for you and me more than either one of us know. I am sick to death of having to defend such a cause, but freedom is a precious thing and I will always stand up for it.
2007-10-29 14:44:43 · answer #6 · answered by Katlynnelore 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What defeat, Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, No dictator apart from Bush and no need for us to be there. we won, lets go
2007-10-29 14:48:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are already defeated. you went blind into a trap, you thought you would be liberating a people from a dictatorship and have been exposed to the world as oil scavengers. Your poor soldiers have paid the price of your politicians greed and you the people are left with this simplistic vision of winning or losing like it was a game you've been watching on TV.
2007-10-29 15:53:20 · answer #8 · answered by Storm Trooper18 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
"Defeat" -- what is defeat? What is victory?
Saying the US can "win" or "lose" in the Middle East is like talking about an umpire winning or losing a baseball game. We're not one of the sides in the Middle East -- we're the umpires.
There's nobody for us to surrender to, nor anyone who can surrender to us. We're not one of the sides. We're just there until we've done whatever we choose to do -- we're the only ones setting our goals, or defining our finish line.
But since we're the only ones defining what our goals are -- and since we have no direct opponent -- we can declare "victory" at any time. Since we can unilaterally choose what our objectives are, who can argue if we say we've met our goals.
2007-10-29 14:36:03 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
With the brilliant successes... I notice some are getting desperate for defeat.
2007-10-29 14:27:30 · answer #10 · answered by gcbtrading 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋