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I don't imagine I need to comment. I'm simply glad they're finally showing their true colors.
I don't imagine I need to comment. I'm simply glad they're finally showing their true colors.
I disagree with this statement. I think the tha men and women who honor our country by serving it deserve my respect and moral support for working for our country, regardless of what the higher branches of state has them doing.
Granted, there are soliders who wanted to go over , but there are also soldiers who didn't or don't. Everyone is allowed an opinion, the fact that people who didn't want to go still went because it was their duty to follow the orders given are , to me, awesome people. It's hard to do something you don't 100% believe in.
I don't belive that anyone has been manipulated ( soldiers ) . I agree ... soldiers volunteered to be n the jobs they hold.
That aside, I don't think I am trying to feel good about myself by holding the opinions I do. My daughter's father is over there ( again ) , noe of my good friend's son is over there. I think i'm just expressing what I feel in my heart. I want these soldiers to survive, to prosper, to come home safely. I don't think they should ahve been sent over in the 1st place. But I honor them as they are dong what they are ordered. Both of these men believe they should be over there... I believe differently. But I would never shun them or act in a way that would cause them grief because I didn't hold the same opinions as them. Or any other soldier for that matter...
I don't understand the logic behind this :
"Besides, to not support the mission is to hope the mission fails."
I do not hope the mission fails, I wish we had never had the mission in the first place, now that we do have the mission, I wish that we could re-consider and decide to withdraw in some manner.
It may be that we see the mission differently , perhaps that is why I don't agree with the logic.
I guess that I am Left, perhaps by default as I am not Right. Politically I am Libertarian leaning.....
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"Besides, to not support the mission is to hope the mission fails."
If you support hte mission, you hope it succeeds. If you do not support the mission, how can you maintain any sort of intellectual honesty by saying "Well, I don't support it, but I hope it succeeds." You can't.
So if you don't hope it succeeds, you, by default, hope it doesn't succeed. You hope it fails.
You have articulated a stand wherein you do not hope the mission fails. Therfore, you hope it succeeds, and therefore support the mission. You may not be willing to admit this, but your stated views indicate it to be so.
Withdrawl is a bad idea. First is the issue of honor. I realize this is a foreign concept to most of American society, though I doubt it is to you. Still, the fact remains we broke Iraq, we're honor bound to fix it.
Further, almost all insurgencies fail, especially when not support by a regular maneuver force (such as the NVA). The problem is the average life span of an insurgency is 7-10 years. These things take time.
There are a number of other reasons to not withdraw, but I'd be here typing for hours, and I have to work tonight.
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