Then I will give you an example. Make it two, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Modern day Japan is very much a thriving democracy. At this point, in the Iraqi war, we must do what we are doing now. I was never a fan of peace keeping operations, and I've been involved in quite a few. When they would hand me a ROE card and say you can shoot here under these circumstances but not under these, it always got under my skin. I'm not saying there isn't a place for peace keeping, I'm just saying that I never liked it. Now, with Iran and Syria, I say just drop a few rather large bombs on them and be done with it. The loss of civilian life would be huge and that is unfortunate. If the people disagree with the current leadership, and I believe the Iranians do, then they need to take matters into their own hands and fix it, or pay the consequences. I look at it like this, there's a threat. Roger that, wipe them off the face of the earth. No more threat. But, like you stated, we now have a responsibility in Iraq. I don't like all of the PC in todays military operations. War isn't supposed to be politically correct. How different would todays world be if, during the Korean war, we decided not to take the crap from the Chinese? What if we would have just sent a few planes over and completely destroyed their country? There would be no known threat from China and there would be only one Korea. Might equals right. When Israel (God bless them) decides to take action with Iran, and I believe they will soon if something doesn't change, do you think they will play politically correct?
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Attributed to General George Patton
Also, I've never said that the Iraqis deserve freedom and democracy. They don't deserve crap. They want freedom, and we are giving them that. They'll take democracy, and like it, because we desire it.
