 Mr NeutronLooks like I picked the wrong week toPremium
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Gorham, ME | reply to Noah Vail
Re: Good Why is it that every time someone brings up Iraq and Afghanistan, and talks about how much money we're pissing away there, (we'll ignore the toll of minds and lives) someone invariably compares the current morass with the Second World War? Why?
It may interest you to know that we fought WWII for four years with a very definite end result. We have, however, been in Iraq for six years-plus and Afghanistan for eight years this fall with no end in sight.
I understand the allure of fighting World War II all over again (really, I do). But we're not fighting conventional conflicts right now and it's not quite so simple to win battles when the bad guys aren't obliging enough to wear uniforms. And alas, not every third world dictator is a threat to world peace on the scale of Hitler, contrary to what our government keeps asserting. 
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| said by Mr Neutron:Why is it that every time someone brings up Iraq and Afghanistan, and talks about how much money we're pissing away there, (we'll ignore the toll of minds and lives) someone invariably compares the current morass with the Second World War? Why? That would be an extension of Godwin's Law. |
