Our so called invasions lets look at them. ...
mcwoodduck
As always you provide a thoughtful and intelligent response to the issues raised. Everything you said in the last post was correct in terms of history. My point is not that there were not reasons for our actions (or that in some cases I did not agree and support them), just that I believe the reasons were flawed. Hindsight is always 20/20. However looking forward I feel we need to focus on what is best for the US, first and allies second. In addition I was pointing out how our actions could be viewed by the other side. It is a given that SOME lives are bettered by our actions. However where does it end - wouldn't alot more people in N. Korea be better off if we invaded and replaced the gov't like we did in Iraq? They are starving in a large way. Also we "KNOW" N. Korea has WMDs and likes to saber rattle. Seems like the same argument we used before in Iraq? Or as some have said do we only pick on the weaker nations for our wrath.
Thanks again to everyone for a lively and thought provoking discussion.
I agree that we need to do what is best for the country to maintain the American dream. That hard work is rewarded, that anyone with a good idea can make it in our society and go from rags to riches.
With that we need to have free markets. and a polite world community. Even when itr was the cold war were were polite to each other and even traded with the soviets.
But taking the option of a premptive strike off the table emboldens our enemies. The idea that we will not project our power off our shores unleashes our enemies to attack our allies.
We need to curtail the excessive spending by the federal government. We need to bring the way over inflated federal pay scale aand multiple jobs to an end. (they hire some one as a noffice assistant and give them three jobs each with a salary. So you have a clerk making 90K a year and drawing a pension for each position when they retire)
We need ot get the tax code under control and make it a nessessary evil rathern than punitive. A company should amke a desicion based on their business and not what will curtail their taxes.
Unleashing the freemarkets and capital will raise wages, create more of a tax base and raise every ones standard of living.
We need to get rid of the Green morons that do not want Union jobs. Do not want any jobs!
