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Originally Posted by rahl
My opposition to this is that the US has failed in every military endevour since vietnam, in that we are attempting to stabalise a govn't, and we still haven't learned to mind our own business. People are dying on both sides and we are at best having no effect and more likely making things worse. The middle east is not like europe after ww2, we can't go in and help rebuild a backward religious society when they don't want our help.
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I wasn't speaking of Afghanistan at all (which isn't in the Middle East, BTW).
I don't understand how you can even begin to make the argument that he US has failed in every military endeavor since Vietnam. Desert Storm was a big success, we crippled Saddam's Army and successfully liberated Kuwait.
OIF...Successful, the country is stable, we are beginning to withdrawal, the Iraqi Government is rapidly becoming self sufficient, we captured Saddam, and the quality of life in Iraq is now greater than it was under Saddam's Regime.
Panama....successful.
Grenada...Successful, and in fact they have a national holiday to commemorate our invasion and restoration of relative freedom.
Kosovo...Successful, we won even though we failed to prevent a lot of the killing due to limited, delayed involvement....but the Military operation worked well, the ethnic cleansing stopped, most of the refugees returned home, the principle actors were captured or killed with few exceptions and the region is far more stable.
And those don't mention all the major operations which never happened because US Military advisors were working quietly with countries in order to stop the spread of conflict...