Originally posted by We4ster
Lefty? Why, because I care about the loss of American soldiers lives?
We ALL care about the lives of American soldiers. And in an ideal situation, we'd be able to solve problems by long distance and aerial attacks alone with little or no loss of American life.
Unfortunately, that's not reality. The reality is, soldiers are dying in combat. That's part of their job. It's not pretty and it's not what ANYONE wants. HUNDREDS are dying in a foreign land so that MILLIONS won't have to die here at the hands of some extremist who kills out of hate and uses religion as an excuse (unfairly giving a bad name to Muslims everywhere).
Why has the American public become such a bunch of candyasses? There are 3 legs that must be sustained for success in any modern combat situation.
1. Administrative - Agree or not, President Bush and his cabinet are handling matters very effectively.
2. Military - Our troops are the best trained and equipped in the world. Perfectly capable of handling anything the Iraq insurgents can throw at them if given enough autonomy to do their job.
3. Public support - The biased picture that the media paints is, unfortunately, the one that many Americans believe. Far more has gone right in Iraq than has gone wrong, but all you hear about is the American body count and how the rest of the world is against us.
Just as in Vietnam, the public's tainted view of the war makes them see it as an abysmal failure. In turn, the public grows tired and loses patience with the whole affair. despite the fact that the President told everyone up front that this would take a long time to resolve. If the liberal media machine convinces enough people that we shouldn't be there, the third leg (public support) will fold and the whole operation will fail. Then, the lives lost since Saddam was ousted will truly have been in vain. Another job left "half-done" because the American public doesn't have the guts to stick it out to the end. What a bunch of sissies we have become.
