Let us test your understanding.
Your actually very pro-American
True.
but in a way that's particularly nasty if not imperialist.
Hmmm. Explain please.
You don't see that setting an example as being a tyrant has it's counter effects.
What are your examples of the US acting as "a tyrant"?
You probably also don't realise that most of the US is an undesirable crime ridden sh#thole.
True. I have lived all over the world and in many of the states. Everywhere I have been has been okay. And Huntsville, is the best place I have been.
First of all the UK Govt will never LIE for you like that again. You used them for the UN vote, they will never risk such worldwide unpopularity again for nothing in return unless there totally stupid.
Why do you have such a low opinion of the UK? Are you claiming that hindsight is better that foresight? Then we agree. If you are claiming that the UK lied for the US then we disagree.
In your thinking Deception is really another word for being treacherous.
All of warfare is based on deception.
My personal preference is to deceive the enemy into failure instead of killing him. We use deception to cause an enemy to put his forces in places where we do not intend to act so we can decisively defeat him where we do attack. Successful deceptions usually save many lives.
You may love the short term benefits but every thief has it's day.
This is the thought of an amateur.
Your analysis of long term goals I feel lacks.
In what way? Is it because you disagree? That does not mean my analysis is the problem. It just means you disagree.
Toppling Hussein was the good thing
Can we get an "Amen" Brothers and Sisters?
the rest of the conflict was simply not worth it.
It is too soon to tell. Long term is just that, long term. It is not a year. It is not five years. Let us wait for twenty and then let's get back together and review the results.
The same with Bin Laden, you should have left after the Northern Alliance had smacked the hell out of the Taliban. But no, let's stay 10 years to see ourselves decline. You do not understand the Afghani mentality in the slightest.
What benefit would that have had?
As my link earlier, the Iraq insurgency are killing still goes on just as it did. And so will the Taliban with or without you.
Don't be shy. Make a point. Successful insurgencies often win in about five years. Failed insurgencies can take ten to fifteen years. Iraq is positioned to continue to do better and better year after year despite the homicide bombers.
You seem to think 'forever' is the answer despite Iraq and Vietnam.
True. If we want to defeat the insurgents and the terrorists. What lesson have you learned from Iraq? I am interested in what you think the lessons are from Viet-nam.
You also don't get the idea that these terrorists are mainly based in Pakistan. You're not fighting a country anymore, your fighting a dispersed idea, a safe haven is in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere. Unless your going to throw down 4-5 front-lines which you can't afford in any case your proposition is futile.
This is nonsense. We can prevent Afghanistan from being used by terrorists. And at the same time we can attack terrorists everywhere else they pop up. Coincidentally we continue to kill terrorists in many countries.
You need to move with the action, not put down a forever marker.
A fool or an amateur announces to friend and enemy alike a departure date. Announced departure dates dispirit our friends and allies. It also increases the martial ardor of our enemies.
And FYI the Russians weren't ******s it was and has always been a futile war.
Do you believe that we and the Soviet Union have the same goal? I observed the Soviet war against the people of Afghanistan as an active duty intelligence officer. They had the wrong goals, the wrong strategy, and even the wrong tactics.
You have become the Redcoats marching out from Boston and your too stubborn to see it.
LOL. Okay. I shall need more information before I can respond to this odd statement.