RE: Bush and Politics, In That Order
Good question...
I thought so, yet you declined to answer it. You vented a lot of "shoulda, coulda, woulda," but offered no alternative. So I ask again, what's the alternative?
Is this the same libertarian 'I take care of me, you take care of you' Steve Brenneis that regularly posts on this board?
Indeed it is. A fundamental inability to understand causality on your part (I blame a liberal upbringing and public education) does not constitute inconsistency on my part.
What about all the other inevitable beheadings and other atrocities that are happening right now throughout the world, most notably in Africa? I know we didn't exactly cause those (we won't get into French and British colonialism here), but...
What about them? You answered the question as soon as you asked it, so why did you bother asking it? Once again, it's that causality thing.
As you've expressed before (in some way or another) we can't save those who can't figure out ways to save themselves.
Indeed we can't. However, we have an obligation to those on whom we have imposed ourselves. We invaded and occupied their country and assumed responsibility for the defense of innocents. As much as you and I might hate the reasons we did that, it is done and thumping our chests and whining about it solves nothing.
So we can have more of our native sons and daughters come home in body bags while fighting a pre-emptive, futile war that we began?
The futility of the action is debatable and there is not a single member of the military in Iraq who is there involuntarily. You can pretty much drop that line. That dog won't hunt.
Better yet, let’s just send them over to Iraq to finish the ‘Strategy For Victory.’
Very good idea. To bad the political elite is far more adept at feeding the cannons than they are at firing them.
I thought so, yet you declined to answer it. You vented a lot of "shoulda, coulda, woulda," but offered no alternative. So I ask again, what's the alternative?
Is this the same libertarian 'I take care of me, you take care of you' Steve Brenneis that regularly posts on this board?
Indeed it is. A fundamental inability to understand causality on your part (I blame a liberal upbringing and public education) does not constitute inconsistency on my part.
What about all the other inevitable beheadings and other atrocities that are happening right now throughout the world, most notably in Africa? I know we didn't exactly cause those (we won't get into French and British colonialism here), but...
What about them? You answered the question as soon as you asked it, so why did you bother asking it? Once again, it's that causality thing.
As you've expressed before (in some way or another) we can't save those who can't figure out ways to save themselves.
Indeed we can't. However, we have an obligation to those on whom we have imposed ourselves. We invaded and occupied their country and assumed responsibility for the defense of innocents. As much as you and I might hate the reasons we did that, it is done and thumping our chests and whining about it solves nothing.
So we can have more of our native sons and daughters come home in body bags while fighting a pre-emptive, futile war that we began?
The futility of the action is debatable and there is not a single member of the military in Iraq who is there involuntarily. You can pretty much drop that line. That dog won't hunt.
Better yet, let’s just send them over to Iraq to finish the ‘Strategy For Victory.’
Very good idea. To bad the political elite is far more adept at feeding the cannons than they are at firing them.
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