Thursday, July 03, 2003
"Bring 'em on!" -- what the hell is that man thinking? I hope he realizes that we aren't in a wrestling ring with some phony-balony actor/atheletes with fake blood and made for video bravado. This is a war and people are getting killed -- every day, our people and their people. I've never heard of such a thing.
We ought to be trying to convince them to stop fighting, not to escalate fighting and "bring 'em on." This mess in Iraq is turning out just like I'd thought it would. The initial war was over quickly and pretty painlessly (for us), but the after-effects will continue on for a long time. I was in Saudi in 1992 and here it is 11 years later and our guys are back in that area again -- for the same reasons -- and probably with the same lack of success.
The east and west have been battling there for a thousand years -- and probably will for a thousand more, unless they kill each other off. War sucks.
We ought to be trying to convince them to stop fighting, not to escalate fighting and "bring 'em on." This mess in Iraq is turning out just like I'd thought it would. The initial war was over quickly and pretty painlessly (for us), but the after-effects will continue on for a long time. I was in Saudi in 1992 and here it is 11 years later and our guys are back in that area again -- for the same reasons -- and probably with the same lack of success.
The east and west have been battling there for a thousand years -- and probably will for a thousand more, unless they kill each other off. War sucks.
