Don't Say That You Support Our Troops -- You Don't

[Rox]

Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Mar 20 2003, 08:33 AM
I happen to support the war - I think Saddam was as likely to disarm peacefully as Hitler was to sit and spin on Neville Chamberlain's umbrella. That doesn't mean I'm pleased that the current Administration failed in the foreign policy objective of getting the world on board.

PD, thanks for that post. I admit that I'm not the most politically savvy person, and perhaps what you said comes a little closer to what I feel, but am not doing a very good job of expressing.

Saddam's gotta go, that's for sure. We should have taken him out long ago. Maybe it's just our foreign policy and the way we're represented that sticks in my craw.

Part of the problem, for me, is that I don't believe we'll ever understand, or "fix" the problems in the Middle East by what amounts to telling them over and over again, "Do it our way; our way's better." The Arabs are still basicly warring tribes whose government is inextricably entangled with their religion. I just see us insulting them and their way of life every time we stick our nose in, that's all.