I was stationed there and I used to believe in the mission...
It's time to bring all the troops home. Sure, leave a base that will serve as an air bridge for points further east, but it's time to bring 'em home.
The war is over. Some danger may still loom, but major fighting is finished. Besides, we're spending billions per year keeping our forces over there. We've trained 'em and armed 'em. It's time their duplicitous government and weak, untested military sink or swim on their own and stop lounging under our security umbrella. Our rapid withdrawal will be just the wake up call they need to get serious and grow up.
We ousted an evil dictator but get no gratitude for it. We saved them from the savagery they visited upon one another and rebuilt their economy and infrastructure. Despite this, all they can do is criticize us. Government cooperation on all but the simplest of things is becoming increasingly problematic. Besides, we don't really have that much in common anyway. We share few common values and the religious differences are stark. Our garish displays of Christianity are offensive to a great majority of the population.
They're getting too cozy with their bigger neighbor to the east whose government funds terrorism and sticks a finger the the West's eye every chance it gets. They were slaughtering each other not so many years ago, but now our host is depending more and more on this dangerous neighbor despite our warnings. Our host's new friend to the east also has empirical ambitions. Flush with oil money, he dispatches armed forces to sow chaos in neighboring countries. But our host is too dependent on him to do anything about it.
Yup. It's time to leave...
... Europe, that is.
8 comments:
Excellent post. Let's leave Europe first, then we can talk about leaving other places.
OHIO JOE
Ohio Joe, you are the pulse of America.
Good stuff, I guest posted and linked here!
CP
Well said! That is just the sort of shock treatment Old Europe needs. They behave like the 35 y/o living in mom's basement. Time for them to leave the nest and make it on their own.
I agree with you that it is way past time to bring the troops home from 120 countries we have bases in.
Your cute post overlooks the fact that where Germany's Hitler was the aggressor in WWII, Bush was the aggressor in Iraq, a country that did not attack us nor threaten to attack us.
Hitler did not attack us, but we declared war on him anyway.
Saddam was in violation of various UN sanctions that authorized force to enforce them. Plus, he fired on our forces carrying out UN-mandated no-fly zones, so he was indeed an aggressor (remember Kuwait?)
You sound like a reasonable person. You see evil in President Bush's actions. Do you see any other evil in the world?
Hu Sane Mikkane:
You are very selective in your view of both history and warfare. Please do some thinking before you bash and trash America.
OHIO JOE
Well said, Ohio Joe. Is a little intellectual honesty too much to ask?
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