"There is certainly no guarantee that they will remain an ally. The very nature of their religion says they will evenually be the enemy - no matter how democratic the process is along the way."
Exactly. We helped Iraq out when they were fighting Iran, and then years later we had to go back and clean their clock when they turned rogue and invaded Kuwait...nice move there....Maybe we should give everyone over there a rifle, afterall, they'll never get pointed at us.... :mj07:
The religious factor in all this cannot be overlooked, and we will be helping out, building another country waiting for a dictator to take the reins and turn enemy again....this $hit happens all the time in these backwoods countries....isn't any different than the mafia and the eternal struggles for power within.....mark my words, we'll be back over there fighting those backwoods primitive religious fanatics, regardless how strong a democracy you think you can set up, Islam will utterly shred it in no time.
As far as all this patriotism towards our efforts in fighting other countrys wars on this planet....however well meaning it all is, it's totally irresponsible of our government to be fighting wars in Vietnam and Korea and exposing our soldiers to death and disfigurement and taxing our population for the cost of wars not fought out of self-defense.
However well meaning doesn't give our government the right to run all over the globe playing cop, and nobody died and made us god and caretaker of the planet.
Exactly. We helped Iraq out when they were fighting Iran, and then years later we had to go back and clean their clock when they turned rogue and invaded Kuwait...nice move there....Maybe we should give everyone over there a rifle, afterall, they'll never get pointed at us.... :mj07:
The religious factor in all this cannot be overlooked, and we will be helping out, building another country waiting for a dictator to take the reins and turn enemy again....this $hit happens all the time in these backwoods countries....isn't any different than the mafia and the eternal struggles for power within.....mark my words, we'll be back over there fighting those backwoods primitive religious fanatics, regardless how strong a democracy you think you can set up, Islam will utterly shred it in no time.
As far as all this patriotism towards our efforts in fighting other countrys wars on this planet....however well meaning it all is, it's totally irresponsible of our government to be fighting wars in Vietnam and Korea and exposing our soldiers to death and disfigurement and taxing our population for the cost of wars not fought out of self-defense.
However well meaning doesn't give our government the right to run all over the globe playing cop, and nobody died and made us god and caretaker of the planet.
