Psychoblues
Senior Member
Way back when, there were separate threads here named "War On Terror" and "War In Iraq". I saw even then the dilemma of combining them. Nonetheless, we have now the bifurcated wars on terror and Iraq discussed here in a single thread or forum.
President Bush has admitted there is no connection with Iraq and 9/11. Even Dick Cheney, after declaring with all authority the opposite, admits there are no WMD's in Iraq and further admits that the threat of a "mushroom cloud here in the homeland" was ill conceived at best. Both tacitly admit there was no threat whatsoever from the peoples of Iraq towards the government, the population or even the business interests of the United States Of America. Why are we there?
I would suggest the understanding of United States Generals that the Iraqi battleground is much more easily observed and predicted than the unforgiving landscape of Afghanistan. I would further suggest that American Military intuition was to some extent correct in that Iraq would prove a magnet, a flypaper if you will, for Islamic militancy, deserving or not. I'll go on to say the military genious behind this operation was and is completely wrong.
A major defeat of Islamic fundalmentalism in Iraq, which doesn't seem likely in light of recent elections both in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east, will only move the attention to other areas while the fundamentalists rejoin and reconstitute wherever they find more comfortable or otherwise attractive.
We have been taught and learned since childhood that any war against China by the United States Of America would result in catastrophic loss to our peoples simply due their might by population. I would suggest that we now endeavor to complete the impossible as warned by our teachings and of world history.
It's mathematics. Muslims outnumber Christians by 2 to 1 and the Muslims are growing and they are much more committed than average Christians.
As a child of God and an American, I will not knowingly in any way injure another human being due simply to their ethnicity, their religion, their country or their difference of political opinion. I have always thought this as the American way of life.
Psychoblues
President Bush has admitted there is no connection with Iraq and 9/11. Even Dick Cheney, after declaring with all authority the opposite, admits there are no WMD's in Iraq and further admits that the threat of a "mushroom cloud here in the homeland" was ill conceived at best. Both tacitly admit there was no threat whatsoever from the peoples of Iraq towards the government, the population or even the business interests of the United States Of America. Why are we there?
I would suggest the understanding of United States Generals that the Iraqi battleground is much more easily observed and predicted than the unforgiving landscape of Afghanistan. I would further suggest that American Military intuition was to some extent correct in that Iraq would prove a magnet, a flypaper if you will, for Islamic militancy, deserving or not. I'll go on to say the military genious behind this operation was and is completely wrong.
A major defeat of Islamic fundalmentalism in Iraq, which doesn't seem likely in light of recent elections both in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east, will only move the attention to other areas while the fundamentalists rejoin and reconstitute wherever they find more comfortable or otherwise attractive.
We have been taught and learned since childhood that any war against China by the United States Of America would result in catastrophic loss to our peoples simply due their might by population. I would suggest that we now endeavor to complete the impossible as warned by our teachings and of world history.
It's mathematics. Muslims outnumber Christians by 2 to 1 and the Muslims are growing and they are much more committed than average Christians.
As a child of God and an American, I will not knowingly in any way injure another human being due simply to their ethnicity, their religion, their country or their difference of political opinion. I have always thought this as the American way of life.
Psychoblues
