| Yes indeed there is a war in Iraq & Afghanistan. No doubt about it. I would hope that everyone by now (if your being honest with yourself) would know that the war in those places really has very little to do with "islamo-fascism" or the "war on terror".
Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11. Bin Laden didn't work with, or even like, Hussein. Iraq never attacked us or had the means to do so if they wanted to. Saddam was a great guy as far as we were concerned until Kuwait (who just happened to sell us lots of oil).
Afghanistan...As soon as we toppled the Taliban & put in a puppet government friendly to our interests (as in, they agreed to build a trans-country natural gas pipe-line from Turkmenistan that could not be built until the Taliban were out of power), we were pretty much out of there. Very few terrorists caught/killed. Bin Laden not caught. Look at the mess it's in now. Taliban resurging, heroine trade back up. Wonderful.
As was said, you can't fight a military war on an idea.
We didn't fight Nazism in WWII, we fought Hitlers German invading army. Nazism was alive & well for many years before the war. Many people didn't like it but it was there nonetheless. Germany even hosted the Olympics which we participated in. We did not even declare war when Hitler started invading other countries. It took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to get us into the war.
If we are fighting a "war on communism" then why haven't we invaded China or Russia like we did Iraq of Afghanistan? We fight those ideas with better ideas, then those other bad ideas lose support.
The conservatives complain to no end about the so-called "war on poverty" but what of the so-called "war on drugs"? It's just as much BS as any other "war on..". Are we winning? |