tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post116300472255433654..comments2023-07-11T11:50:40.225-04:00Comments on Off the Top of My Head: The times, they are a changin'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post-1163169501613640552006-11-10T09:38:00.000-05:002006-11-10T09:38:00.000-05:00Just remember...2,842 (and counting) American sold...Just remember...2,842 (and counting) American soldiers have died since we started this mess. When will the job be done??? The Middle East has been fighting a war against Israel since 1945. Obviously they don't agree with democracy. But yet we feel it's are god-given right to force it on them. Do we continue this war forever? <BR/><BR/>One last question...Do we start the draft up again? I mean cummon, this is important. We need to win this thing. Why aren’t all the people that believe we should stay in Iraq either joining the reserves or encouraging others (close to them) to join the arm forces and fight for this important cause?Aaron Hullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13790986912205517058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post-1163158276277595372006-11-10T06:31:00.000-05:002006-11-10T06:31:00.000-05:00Well put, Rory. Vietnam was a mess and Iraq is me...Well put, Rory. Vietnam was a mess and Iraq is mess...but they're very different kinds of messes.Roonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13318981132849793996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post-1163135607881416062006-11-10T00:13:00.000-05:002006-11-10T00:13:00.000-05:00I agree with your crisp summary, Roon. The rationa...I agree with your crisp summary, Roon. The rational underlaying Bush administration actions was to jump-start change in Middle East politics towards systems having far less discontinuity with how the rest of the world is progressing - a discontinuity that, left to grow, will result in only more violence and dispair. It wasn't about oil, or cultural imperialism, or reviving the military-industrial complex, or making hot new markets for iPods. But Iraq turned out to be adventurism in the best tradition of the British in Mesopotamia - which is how the ill-conceived modern state of Iraq was formed in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Which brings me to Aaron's comment: Perhaps people don't admit America in Iraq is another Vietnam precisely because it <I>isn't</I> Vietnam. Read your Southeast Asia and Middle East histories again, Aaron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post-1163020534954157642006-11-08T16:15:00.000-05:002006-11-08T16:15:00.000-05:00I remember taking a class in high school that was ...I remember taking a class in high school that was devoted to the Vietnam war. My father and I (both of us very much against the invasion) drew comparisons when we invaded Iraq and everybody laughed at us. History has repeated once again. This is another vietnam. The only difference is that new medical technology has kept the body count down. It's scarry how people don't want to admit that this is another Vietnam. <BR/><BR/>Do we pull out now??? Yes...because If we don't, after more people die we will pull out anyway. We will not win Iraq. Get out now!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858496.post-1163015311287291592006-11-08T14:48:00.000-05:002006-11-08T14:48:00.000-05:00Would we be out of Iraq with Kerry by now? We will...Would we be out of Iraq with Kerry by now? We will never know. Nor, will we know if we did get out of Iraq if the future of Iraq would be any different (I think either way Iraq is going to break up). However, I am sure that Kerry would have tried much harder to get us out of Iraq than Bush did in the past two years. I guess Bush was to busy using all that "polical capital" from the 2004 election getting Democarts elected in 2006 :)<BR/><BR/>MarcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com