Ozmo what I'm trying to get at is what you consider to be a worthy cause for the sacrifice of American lives. What about Afghanistan? Was that conflict worth the lives of our men and women who died there? We don't have to agree. I just don't think I could ever look at a conflict and determine whether the conflict was a worthy one based on the number of lives we lost.
another thing is, what if we lose?
Lose what? What were our objectives going into the war and what have we accomplished? There has been a lot of revisionist history going on with this war discussion (in the country in general).
If we leave and an unfriendly government takes over, we have lost. And all those people that died will have died for nothing.we did meet the invasion objectives....that's about all. in turn we have created a mess that makes a solution hard to find.
I disagree. If we leave and a Saddam replica takes over, with either WMDs or goals to obtain them, along with all of the attributes of Saddam, then I think we will arguably have lost. I doubt that happens. Saddam was unique. If we have met the invasion objections, that sounds like winning to me. Definitely not "losing." What we have done is fail to properly plan for and carry out our post-invasion objectives.
Then qualifying what winning is, is another discussion.If an unfriendly government that has the same attitudes as Iran towards the US? what would you think about that?
