Four years on...

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

Are we any safer?

Could it happen again or has the Gov'ts measure prevented a similar occurance?

Has the action in Iraq made us safer or at greater risk?

We're "safer" in the sense that we no longer believe we're untouchable. That's about the only sense, though.

Could it happen again? Yes. Government measures couldn't prevent anything.

All Iraq has done is illustrate again that we didn't learn anything from Vietnam. There are certain cultures we are helpless against. We had soldiers killed in Southeast Asia by women and children with bombs strapped to them. We're standing there with candy bars in our hands, ready to do the Audie Murphy movie bit and got blasted to pieces. If the soldiers shot to defend themselves, they were "baby killers." We'll never be able to defend ourselves against an enemy we refuse to accept: these people literally do not care whether they live or die. How the hell do you fight something like that? There won't be any Christmas Eve "meet across the trenches, share a flask and show pics of the kids" in this war. Those days have been gone for half a century.

But, we'll pour money on it.

New Orleans won't have a levee and high school "graduates" can't read.