insein
Senior Member
Actually I'm here to respond to what you view as unpatriotic or 'cowardly'.. how is war required when there were no weapons of mass destruction?
You're new so i'll give the benefit of the doubt on not reviewing the boards yet. Do yourself a favor. Go look at the numerous threads involving the WMD topic and you'll find that they were there and that all of our allies agreed that they were there including the hapless UN.
It takes more guts to understand and sympathize with people who are different..
IT takes ZERO guts to understand and sympathize with those that wish to kill us. That is the very definition of cowardly. If a bully keeps punching you in the nose every other day, do you try to talk to him and ask him why he keeps punching you in the nose or do you knock him out next time you see him to keep him from punching you in the nose again?
How are we 'defeated' by going to war in a country like North Korea for example. I mean there are things I totally disagree with in some countries but we are American-centric.
We are not on North Korean Soil but we will be at war because they pose a threat to us (Hawaii, West Coast) as well as our allies (SK, Japan, Taiwan, etc).
how many of us are concerned that 50, 000 Iraqis died? We're only concerned about our own fraction of the casualties. If you are Iraqi wouldn't that outrage you?
Seems to me that the only ones concerned with troop deaths are those scoring polictical points with the issue. If anyone truely cared about IRaqis then we would have removed Sadaam years ago when we first got there. After all we did find hundreds of thousands of bodies in mass graves of those that "disagreed" with Saddam's views. Of those that have died since we've gone there, about 70% are at the hands of foreign terrorist groups that have targeted Iraqi civilians in order to disrupt their everyday lives and prevent them from becoming a democracy.
To me America is about innovation, creativity and righteousness, not about using force to spread our values.
We arent using force to spread values. We are going forth and killing those that wish to kill us before they succeed. Wherever that takes us then so be it.