Reply #97: Your position supposes garbage not supported by facts. [View All]

[cliffordu]

You imply that he is simply escalating THE COMBAT TROOP LEVEL.

Nothing about troops that will handle rebuilding SOME of the infrastructure, training of their military, rehabbing the drug crops to something less deadly and profitable to the drug lords and the Taliban......

Your position doesn't take into account that those tribal leaders got along just fucking fine until about 1973 or 74........go look it up -

And that's a nice try with the 'nation building' repub insult. Fail.

A little nation building might not be a bad thing. Better that than the status quo we met when that fucking Bush went in, and it might even repair some of the damage that 8 years of neglect and war has spawned. Maybe not but I think it's worth the effort.

Nobody can guarantee there won't be retribution of some sort after we leave, you cannot even guarantee there won't be retribution in my neighborhood if the cops are called.

We can attempt to avert slaughter, though. As that dupe of a general Powell said..."You break it you buy it..." and we broke the living hell out of it. did


Or we could simply walk away because 'it won't do any good' and 'they are savages and live in the 13th century' or what ever excuse you seem to see fit.

And let the slaughter we KNOW will happen at THIS stage, take off.

I think your stance against the war is admirable, but your reasoning and tactics are small at best and bogus at worst.