🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <km9pe3tmhfv73pdukj4abre146b9l2e35q@4ax.com>,
 Al Giazirra <thatsme@realitalianlastname.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:43:30 -0500, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <qdmoe35jv3thrvi74rgsbf27urvlcjon26@4ax.com>,
> > Al Giazirra <thatsme@realitalianlastname.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:11:07 -0500, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >In article <l01le39bppcgc9kjut27fhok7irht6ukfp@4ax.com>,
> >> > Al Giazirra <thatsme@realitalianlastname.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Let's just get the hell out and allow all the animals to kill
> >> >> themselves.  If we don't like the outcome, nuke 'em all and start with
> >> >> a clean slate.  Why is this so hard to see?  Is it that some friends
> >> >> won't make a railcar load of money?
> >> >> 
> >> >
> >> >As long as you don't mind Iran, Russia and China controlling the global 
> >> >economy, and $6/gal gas, that's not a bad idea.
> >> 
> >> Well okay, if it'll save me a few bucks, then I'll concur that we need
> >> to shed more of our youngsters' blood and keep spending billions
> >> fighting animals who have been killing each other without recourse
> >> since before Christ first swung a hammer.  
> >
> >But these are nuclear, not Biblical times, and it's a global economy 
> >very sensitive to energy concerns, which is one reason we are in Iraq. 
> >There are others.
> 
> Sure, wouldn't it be grand if everything would go our way?  Count how
> many years it's been since we first arrived there.  Nuculer (as the
> current president says) or biblical, the fact remains that the only
> way to control those human beings is exactly as Saddam did.  When they
> even consider stepping out of line, they need to disappear.  Only a
> fool would actually think they are reasonable, and only fools continue
> to support this Vietnam of the 21st Century.

You would do well to study evolution of societies which emerge from 
totalitarian rule, the often don't adhere to a timeline the free word 
would prefer.

As for Vietnam, that comparison is flawed because the left sees every 
war through the Vietnam filter, it is the sole reference, the standard - 
no matter how inappropriate, so it's meaningless.