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Originally posted by Mike AI@Aug 24 2003, 08:27 PM
The problem with US Americans is we have become a nation of the quick fix, immediate gratification.
Iraq is NOT a quick fix it will take 20-30 years.... but it will be well worth it, if we can use Iraq as a base to stabilize the region.
American's forget we still have troops in Germany and Japan.... been there since 1945 - 1946.
We need to long long term, be patient, look at big picture....
The problem is unlike 1945-1946 we have a lot of anti-Americans who are running for office, and controling the press and using Iraq to manipulate voters....
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Anti-Americans running for office? Who do you consider anti-American, Torone? Anyone to the left of Ann Coulter?
And using Iraq to maniuplate voters? Exactly how are they doing that? By suggesting that a large part of the justification for the war was of questionable value? By suggesting that the planning for the afterrmath this war was slipshod at based, and based more on idealogical assumptions than in fact? By observing with their own eyes and ears that the administration that did an about-face in two weeks - from denying there was a guerilla war to acknowledging it's existance? By observing with their own eyes that the policy of occupation-lite tactics of this Administration, which are failing in Afghanistan, are now failing in a much more public way in Iraq?
Oh, I know that you and the others who have attained enlightenment and understanding of realpolitik may have difficulty comprehending the dissatisfaction of commoners and the rest of the public-school educated masses; but your most-favored-mullahs in charge better figure out a way to convince them, or trump up another crisis someplace to distract them. Otherwise they may find themselves in some deep doodoo with the voters.
The pathetic thing is that there were people in 1945-1946 denoucing Truman, Clark, Marshall, et al as being Anti-American. The problem is that unlike 1945-1946 we have a lot of folks who don't realize just how tired those lines are, or how silly their entire premise is. The REAL anti-Americans, IMHO, are the self righteous chumps who don't seem to realize that not everyone is willing to call Bush's naked ass a Brooks Brothers suit, and that one does not have to be a right-wing Republican in order to be a patriotic American.