Timelordwho wrote:
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Yes. I do remember it. Too bad the president who got elected in 2008 decided to chuck all that money and all that time and all those lives into the trash by abandoning Iraq instead of building on all the good things we'd accomplished there.
If you see someone building a sh
it canoe, and he's taking your money to do so, lovingly crafting it by cobbling lumps of sh
it together, then when he finally gets it into the water it starts to fall apart and spread sh
it everywhere. He says "if only i had more sh
it, it would be seaworthy. It would be such a waste if we stopped now." Do you continue to enable him?
Except that the canoe wasn't built out of sh
it. It was built out of wood. But you didn't believe that it would float because wood's just too heavy to float, and it might tip over, and then there's the whole "edge of the world" thing that makes man traveling on water problematic. So while the other guy is building his canoe, you keep sneaking over and bashing holes in it, all the while insisting that it'll never float. So he has to keep patching those holes you keep making. Finally, after much more work that it should have taken, he's got his canoe done. It's not pretty, with tons of patched bits all over, but sure enough it floats. Do you then, apparently in a fit of jealously over his success, continue to do everything you can to make it sink?
That's basically what the Left has been doing in the ME. They want anything we do there to fail, so they can say "I told you so". Which is kinda sad. And along the way, if the total body count is multiplied many times, well... it's just brown skinned people, and we can blame it all on those war mongering conservatives, so I guess we can sleep well at night or something. Surely you can grasp that when the bulk of a "sides" foreign policy position is based on the other side's failing, there's going to tend to be some effort spent making it fail. The reality is that, while there was still a ton of work to do, our actions in the ME were bringing about the kinds of changes which might some day result in a more peaceful region without such hatred that the rest of the world has to suffer through its primary export, terrorism. And what Obama's policies have done is set that back another 10 or 20 years.