If we do not learn from the past we are bound to relive the same mistakes. We have all heard a variation on that theme before. But here we are watching deja vu all over again. It has been a disgrace to watch how our military has been handicapped in Iraq. We ask our brave men and women in the armed forces to be willing to lay down their lives in protecting our country and our way of life. Yes, a job that requires one to be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. They should get nothing less that 100% support from our government and the people of this country who they are willing to die for (that includes all the traders at CNN). But we are seeing a very different picture with effort in Iraq. The so called Haditha massacre is case in point. Our Marines are being tried in the media for cold blooded murder before all the facts are in and they had their turn to defend themselves. Worst of all our politicians including our President have come out saying that any guilty parties in this event will be punished. How about giving them the benefit of the doubt and say, “I will not comment until we know all the facts”! Where’s the support and belief in our well trained soldiers?! A dog handler who served twelve and a half years in the Marines was found guilty of charges based upon the fact that he let his guard dog bark in the face of an terrorist prisoner at Abu Ghraib. For being “mean” to this terrorist this Marine may be locked up for three and a half years behind bars. Thanks for the support Uncle Sam! A country should never go to war if it is not willing to do what has to be done to win at any cost. In WW2 we dropped two A-bombs on Japan and truly massacred countless innocent lives. That was total commitment to win against the enemy at any cost when it was called for. And yes, we changed the world into a better place and changed an enemy into an eventual ally. I truly hate to say it but our military strategy in Iraq looks allot more like what we where doing in Vietnam then what we did in Japan. If the Marines in Haditha did really lose it and kill innocent men, women, and children, it was because of the frustration that they have to deal with daily being hung out to dry by their own government. They should not be held accountable but it’s our government officials as well as the higher ups in the pentagon that should be found culpable for sending our soldiers in to Iraq to be killed without the ability to ever truly defeat the enemy. And yes, we have heard of all the wonderful positive humanitarian things our troops have done for the Iraqi people but we are dealing with a very different mindset when dealing with the middle eastern Islamic. I have no doubt that if al Qaeda set off a nuke in New York City or Washington DC and killed Millions of innocent Americans, that very day the Iraqi men, women, and children would be dancing in the streets and singing praise to Allah. It seems that there is no one in our government that truly understands the mindset of these people. We can never be nice enough to them to make them our friends. For now, stop the madness and bring our troops home. Will our effort in Iraq be viewed a failure? Of course, but it will only become a bigger failure the longer we stay. Bring the boys home and start training highly specialized hit squads to covertly go in to enemy countries (and that includes Pakistan) without permission or notice to these countries and lets start bumping off the leadership of al Qaeda including Osama bin Laden.
Posted by jeffandmikeshow
at 4:29 PM
Updated: Monday, 10 July 2006 5:42 PM
