Stop arguing and come to your senses, Abe. Your words just help to kill more American soldiers for nothing but illusions.
Due to the high stakes that got lost, I agree with those saying that this already is far worse than Vietnam. There is a reason why so many retired generals and military experts, who are now free to voice their personal opinion more openly than during their active career, rate Iraq as a defeat, a loss, a debacle. I stumbled over various such articles in recent months, just picking this one since it is quite representative:
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/b...war/index.html
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Originally Posted by Gen. Odom
The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaida. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic.
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Record
The worst case has become true. There's no analogy whatsoever between the situation in Iraq and the advantages we had after World War II in Germany and Japan.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Terrill
We see larger and more coordinated military attacks. They are getting better and they can self-regenerate. The idea there are X number of insurgents and when they're all dead we can get out is wrong.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal
If Iraq is what you label a win, I hope I never must witness what it looks like when you label a war as a defeat and loss.