[Rhodes22-list] Iraq - It is still there!

[Brad Haslett]

John,

Korea and Vietnam were both part of the Cold War against communism.  The war
was worth fighting even if the battlefields were poorly chosen (I sleep with
a commie and she and her friends will tell you that communism wasn't much
fun).  Remember Kennedy's "bear any cost, pay any price" speech? Maybe we
need some more JFK vision. The new 'ism' wants to take us back to the 7th
Century.  They are not bluffing, we saw that in Afghanistan. We can choose
to tolerate 'acceptable' losses, ie, a Twin Towers every now and then, or
attempt to change the whole paradigm of the Middle East.  What version of
'peace settlement' are we on now? What if we just blew up Israel ourselves
and spared them the trouble and expense.  Would they be happy and live in
peace?  The Germans finally got it as well as the Japanese.  If the Muslim
world can't get it then we better hunker down and forget all the PC
bullshit.  The current administration will be gone soon enough.  The enemy
doesn't give a shit who is elected next anymore than termites care who lives
in the house they are eating.  The press is no help, they think they are the
unelected leaders.  I don't have the answers, but we are in the  second week
of the largest battle of the current war since 2003 and the MSM isn't paying
attention.  Why would the average citizen.

Sheeple!  Baaaaaaah!

Brad

On 6/25/07, john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> i'd like to reply intelligently, but i don't have enough facts. either our
> leaders have a good idea of what they are trying to do, but can't let us
> know because its top secret, or they have made so many errors that to really
> tell the truth they have to all resign and they are not about to resign. so
> they lie to us in order to gain time. if we really wanted to win,(whatever
> that means), we would stop this asinine policy of hot spot warfare and go
> back to frontal war. it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys
> when you have a frontline. we made the same mistake in vietnam and korea. we
> think we can have, and win in, a local conflict without alarming neighboring
> states and religions. its like doing surgery without monitoring the life
> signs.
>
> Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:   While we are choosing the cut of
> our next mainsail, kids are still dying in
> Iraq. Mostly, they are killed from IEDs, enhanced with C4 from Iran
> (semtex
> too), but other sources as well. Sorry too spoil your otherwise pleasant
> day
> but twenty-year-old kids have their asses at risk as we speak, while in
> cyberspace, we mentally masturbate about defending your right to bitch
> about
> why they are there, OR, we debate the cut of our mainsail. Go sailing on
> the 4th of July and forget about all that died to make that holiday
> happen.
> I can't blame you for not having a clue about what is happening in Iraq
> right now, why should you care when there is so much more interesting news
> happening. Did Paris eat a snatch in prison? Inquiring minds want to
> know! I don't know what your plans on the 4th are but I'm taking the
> CoraShen out and flying the flag. Why can't we all get along? The Germans
> just wanted a little territory and a few less Jews. No problem there.
> Right? Sorry for spoiling an otherwise great sail but wake up folks! Your
> weekend sailing satisfaction is not guaranteed! The war that is nothing
> more than a bumper sticker might just blow-up right in your face. Happy
> 4th! (I'll be gone until the 6th of July so the world is your
> responsibility. Good Luck!
>
> Brad
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