Sure we have enemies and every day we spend bombing and occupying other countries we create more. Look at the mess in Afghanistan and now in Pakistan. It makes no sense to be in Central Asia or in Iraq, total waste of time, money and resources as well as human lives. Not very different from Vietnam and few would argue today retrospectively that invading Indo-China was a good thing and helped us, no we had guns and butter, same as now and we paid for it in the mid and late 70's. We are inciting people over there to still more hatred and violence because we are dropping bombs on civilians and people who would otherwise not get riled up about all this. Sadam Hussein was perhaps hostile but was no danger to the USA and there was no GOOD reason to invade. Never mind the total lack of constitutionality of it all. Rightwingers love to complain about leftwingers overspending, well our overseas empire costs over a trillion a year. Imagine if we saved that or we spent it at home at least for infrastructure. We would be a lot safer if we minded our own business and gave up the empire. How does the empire benefit ordinary Americans? other than draining their tax dollars? So yes, we have enemies but the answer is not to make more enemies.
i agree with most of what you are saying. except there are a few things that i believe you take for granted. you believe that sadaam was no threat to us. well thats only because we went over there and found out that he wasnt as far along with gaining nukes as we thought he was. every time bill clinton addressed the nation the last 2 years of his presidency he warned us about the danger of sadaam and his regime and the dire consequences we would face if he were to get his hands on nukes. every one thought he was dangerous. left and right. GWB went and found out just how dangerous he was. Fact is we dont know what other dangers we faced that the Bush administration prevented. Its easy to sit there and say none but that's just your bias speaking. fact is we dont know.
I do believe now that the best option after 9/11 was probably just to take it and do nothing. thats the sad reality. but could you imagine if GWB did nothing? could you imagine the conspiracy theories michael moore would have made up? could you imagine what the left would be saying about him?
I do agree with you that we are at this point just wasting money and making enemies. there is really nothing we can do. i think its funny that we think obama is going to change their hatred of us. we think because of the pigment of his skin that he has a better chance to bring peace with the middle east. its a joke and it reflects the simpleminedness of our country's citizens.
i didnt vote for obama. but i will tell you this. i trust obama to defend our soil. he is my president. i will put my politics aside and support him when it comes to any military decision that he may have to make. he knows more than i do about our situation. i think its the apex of arrogance and ignorance to think that i know more about the dangers we face from watching fox news and msnbc than he does from being briefed by our intelligence community.
