I don’t understand where you are going with this. By that line of reasoning, since the Iraqis have not thrown out the US occupation force, clearly, it is THEIR CHOICE that the US occupation force stays on.
No, but we’ve never seriously tried. We don’t actually care. Which is one major reason why we aren’t going to help Iraq no matter how long we stay or how many people we put there; we are the bad guys. We are the thugs that caused the damage in the first place.
Thugs is exactly what they are; that’s why they are there in the first place.
It probably won’t no matter what happens; we’ve pretty well discredited democracy in that part of the world. But something like that is more likely to happen if we leave. You can’t heal stab wounds until the stabbing stops.
Wow, I never knew there were so many Canadians with a hard-on for getting Americans killed.
Is that extra purchasing power really worth it?
-Joe
Of course not. I’d also require that you finance the restoration of my home, and reimburse me for my medical expenses.
I certainly wouldn’t want YOU to be personally delivering my medical treatment, OR anywhere within a thousand yards of me or my home, much less wielding a hammer for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team.
In fact, I’d probably want you in jail, or if you didn’t have any money in the bank, working at your real, not-assault-and-arson-related job (preferably in the next county), with your wages garnished to the maximum extent practicable.
:dubious: By that line of reasoning, there is no such thing as rape if the man is physically stronger than the woman.
I don’t have a vision for a post-occupation Iraq. I basically don’t care. I used to hope maybe there wouldn’t be a civil war, but I’ve become indifferent about that now. If the insurgents can take the country, I say more power to them. Just wait until our guys are out of there. After that they can slug it out all they want. Neither side is any better than the other, so I don’t care who wins.
That is no recipe for victory, Diogenes!
Cutting and running is underrated.
Actually, I would like you to stop beating me. You’re the one who’s making the argument that the remedy for beating somebody up is to keep hitting them.
In this, you are as wrong as you’ve been everywhere else in this thread.
What? You’re going to simply cut and run? Apply more resources. The question ultimately is whether you want to win or not.
In what? That the US armed forces are thugs, or about your contention that they are thugs?
All we have to do is keep killing them until they stop hating us. Worked great in 'Nam, didn’t it?
Actually, they are both at once. That’s part of the problem.