Well duck the only difference now, is that we're not gettin compensation + expenses. They don't want us in Iraq, and they don't want us in Afghanistan. We are OCCUPIERS. We had every right to bomb hell out of Afghanistan's training camps, and well we should have, but we had no right in going in and involving ourselves in an oil dispute between Kuwait, and Iraq, and to make matters worse we supported and defended the thief that was stealin the oil. 20+ years later, we're still there, and the thief has become even more wealthy, and contributes nothing to the cause.
This debate is like saying: Ok, go rob banks and bring the money back here. And someone saying: Look. If we're gonna have him rob banks we need to at least get him a faster car. We shouldn't be sendin them to rob banks in the first place.
You know, and we all know, that the government has no intention of letting the troops win the wars, whether the wars are just or unjust. What's the point in debating equipment? They shouldn't be there in the first place, and the government does not want them to become efficient with better weaponry. It ain't gonna happen. It doesn't matter what happened 60 years ago in WWII. This is a different government from that one. We have not won a war SINCE WWII, and it's gettin worse not better.
We all know what the Muslim terrorists are doing, and it isn't gonna change. Everything you say is true, but a better rifle is not going to change any of that. The only thing that's gonna change it, is for everyone to get together and quit puttin the same politicians back in over and over.
The politicians subjected millions of our soldiers to a war much like these two in Vietnam. 53,000+ dead soldiers, and an untold amount of wounded soldiers later, the politicians said: Well, this one ain't workin either, we're outta here. 53,000+ dead, and not even an apology from the government to those families. These two wars will end the same. Even the commanding General himself in Afghanistan says we're losin. He didn't say it was because of a rife, it's because of the Afghan fighter, and his will to take back his country. He has never quit, since Alexander the Great tried this. We won't be any different. Our government, and sadly many voters, believe their own BS.
You corner him, and even a mouse will fight. The Afghans cut his teeth on fighting. It's a way of life for him, not a political whim some politician thought up.