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Originally Posted by Mazer
If you agree that we've stirred up a hornets' nest in the middle east, then what makes you think the hornets will stop attacking us after we retreat? They'll be looking for a fight. The truth is that leaving Iraq will not save money and it will not save lives. If we don't bring the fight to them, they'll bring it to us. Civilians will continue to die, but they'll be American civilians.
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a little dramatic, no? the vast majority of the fighting in iraq is factional - we are dying there because we are there, and therefore targets. obviously, ending an occupation will save some of the billions it costs to station 140,000 troops in a foreign country and most of the american lives being lost there.
the "they will follow us here" argument is perhaps the silliest of all (no wonder the Prez uses it frequently). how will they follow us - in the Al Queda navy? using the Al Queda air force?
at the end of the day, defense policy will come full circle to back where it was on September 10, 2001: contain our enemies where we can, remove the removable threats, protect our borders, and be as vigilant as possible....and still take a hit every now and then, just like the rest of the world. that's as good as it gets.
edit:if this guy isn't your Congressman, he should be:
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'We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here," Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said recently in making the argument for keeping U.S. troops fighting terrorists in Iraq.
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the ultimate wingnut nightmare - battling terrorists in the produce aisle.
