October 25, 2005
2000th Causelty
Well, we've reached what the Left seems to regard as a magic number; we've lost the 2,000th service member in Iraq. The anti-war crowd seems to believe that this is the number that will spark a full-fledged cry from the American people to abandon the Iraqi's to their own devices.
I think the troops feel differently; as the story states:
"Recent public opinion polls show that Americans increasingly favor an early withdrawal of troops, but soldiers in Iraq said the rising death toll stiffened their resolve and would likely make pulling out more difficult."
We need to pull the gloves off and let the troops conduct a full out-balls to the wall WAR and forget the niceties of whether or not the Arab street won't like us any more. We have made great strides in Iraq, despite what the LSM has been peddling. They try to call it a morass, even though we have rebuilt a quarter of the infrastucture, and the Iraqi's have voted to enact a democratic constitution. The left says "too little-too late" and "why has it taken so long"?; when if they looked at our own history, they'de find that the Iraqis are almost eight years ahead of where we were in the founding of our own country.
There will many problems and setbacks in the years to come, but the seed has been planted, and with the proper care, it will grow into a mighty tree. A tree that will bear witness to the sacrifices made, both by our brave men and women, but by the Iraqi people themselves; we owe it to those that gave the last measure to continue to tend the tree of Liberty untill it has become fully rooted and is capable of resisting the storms that may rage around it.
Freedom is never free.
Posted by: GUYK at October 26, 2005 08:35 PMYou wrote: "We need to pull the gloves off and let the troops conduct a full out-balls to the wall WAR and forget the niceties of whether or not the Arab street won't like us any more."
I'm having a hard time following that logic so I'm checking in:
When justification for being at WAR in the first place is for the sake of Arabic people...logic escapes me at the part about "...forget the niceties of whether or not the Arab street (the people) won't like us any more."
Your comment implies our troops waging a WAR in which the Arabic street would feel need to defend itself from our troops - no?
If foreign forces performed militarily operations inside American cities "...forgetting about niceties or whether or not American's liked them...", I'd assume they would have a real problem on their hands in short order - regardless of whether government officials endorsed them or not.
Thanks
- Scott
And regarding my comment above: seems like the logic of your position was probably the same position and logic held by the Brits prior the American Revolution - no?
Thanks
- Scott
According to the latest British poll, a whopping 1% of the Iraqi people believe that U.S. troops are contributing to their security. (Is this the one percent who got confused on how to fill out the survey form?) At any rate, what exactly is the plan here? Are you going to send an American over to guard every post office and pipe-line? The Japanese had an occupation force in Korea and China that dwarfed ours and they still had a difficult time of it. (And this was an Army willing to take massive casualties and act with absolute brutality.) Being tough's fine but we aren't talking about a brawl, we're talking about an occupation--an EXTREMELY unpopular one.
Posted by: Karlo at October 30, 2005 02:40 PM