It's a good thing no one gives a crap about all the Kurds that Saddam massacred or we might have a just cause on our hands. "Never Again" my a$$.
I'm an isolationist for a number of reasons, and I'm the first to admit that I was not always so. I was swept up in the pro-american warhawk movement after the Sept 11th attack and I was ready to visit ruination upon every Islamic state in the world.
Still, I support the war because it's too late to do anything about it now, and the Iraqi people deserve a chance to govern themselves for once. I wouldn't support another one, because quite frankly, from a political standpoint, I don't give a damn about third-world hellholes and their problems. It's not nice, but it's the truth.
So, I would appreciate a little truth from the peacemongering left that stabs our troops in the back everytime they say "I support our troops but I don't approve of what they are doing and I like to give hope to nutjobs that blow up innocent people and hate my country." If you don't care about Kurds being massacred or people living in fear of a maniacal tyrant, just say so, but don't feed me all this bleeding heart crap about peace and saving the ocean and free Tibet and whatever. That's all I want. Admit that you just don't care about people enough to ever use military force and also, tell the Jews that if you could do it over again, you'd have left them in the concentration camps because war is wrong.
Obviously, this does not include our friends from other nations, to whom we owe a thanks for the times they stood beside us, and a "sorry" for the times we messed up or made them mad. The general sentiment seems to be that we should mind our own business, and believe me, I'd love it if we did.
So, please, tell my leftist colleagues that you would like the return of the isolationist America and the accompanying political system so that we can do a societal about-face and march straight back to the days when we were the U.S. of by-God A. and not the limp-wristed nanny-state it's becoming.
In my own defense, I'm not quite so heartless as my political beliefs would make me seem. I try to be a good Christian, and there's a set of values which comes with that, including tolerance (including towards gays and everyone else for that matter) and charity. While I wouldn't cast a vote to help another nation or even many Americans, militarily or financially, I would, and do, donate time and money to such efforts. Also, I'd have the fecking common courtesy not to force other people to do the same through legislation.
So, Liberals and I-told-you-this-war-was-badists, please recall that when we started this war, you didn't say anything, and your representatives certainly didn't, unless you live in Ron Paul's district, and we're commited now, so please try to bite your toungue, pat our troops on the back, and reach deep down in those big liberal hearts full of love and pretend that you give a s*** about oppressed people and massacred families in another country for a few years, whaddya say?