sleeper;784836 wrote:So because I've never fought in a war makes me unqualified as a tax paying US citizen to declare the wars in the middle east a colossal waste of money?

It's not a matter of you never wanting to be a manager, its a matter that no one would hire you as a manager. I know it, you know it, hell even the dog knows it.

Tiger2003;784856 wrote:I said it is alot of money. But we do need to have this war. We need to finish it.
I don't care if nobody would hire me as a manager. I have no desire to be a manager.

Tiger2003;784675 wrote:This mission is to bring security to that country. To eliminate all of the bad. We are close but we are not there yet. This has been one of the deadliest months in Afghan. What does that mean? Well it means we are not done their and there is still work to be done. Just because Bin Laden is dead does not mean the mission is complete.

Al Bundy;784866 wrote:You can't eliminate all of the bad in any country. True change has to come from within a country itself.

Tiger2003;784897 wrote:Correct we can't eliminate all the bad but we help them going in the right direction. We can't just leave the country with the bad still running the country.

Al Bundy;784908 wrote:Our military is responsible for our safety and security, not everyone in the world. We should maintain whatever is needed to ensure that, but we can't run another's country's government. That has to come from within that country.

Tiger2003;784917 wrote:We have to help set up there government since they have had a well formed government. It is the same thing we have done in Iraq, and that country is a hell of alot better then it was before we got there.

Al Bundy;784920 wrote:It's debatable how much safer we are with the government change in iraq. I don't think it has been worth the lives that we have lost.

Tiger2003;784921 wrote:All I can say is Iraq is alot different from the first time I was there until the last time. JMO