Agreed, and that's why we can't pull out now. Thank you for making my argument for me.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:07 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory > > > This is the whole point. Except for the Balkans and his failure in > > Somalia, Clinton did nothing. So there were no conflicts. > > > > And what of the successes in the Balkans? Aren't we still there > > "keeping > > the peace"? If so, then how is that successful. Success to me is when > > you go into a country, wage war, win and get out. Not wage an air > > campaign, then send in some peacekeepers there for an undetermined > > amount of time. > > Nope most of the American soldiers have been drawn down. What is there > in Kosovo and Bosnia are mostly Nato forces. As for the first WTC > bombing, from what I remember they caught the people involved in it and > the planners fairly quickly. > > Besides those missions were fairly successful - how much ethnic > cleansing have you seen in Bosnia recently? Moreover the Mostar bridge > has been rebuilt by both the Croat and the Bosnian governments, and > Sarajevo is not getting pounded by artillery. That is a successful > mission. > > Being a soldier doesn't mean just waging war. At least the way I was > trained in the Canadian Armed Forces it means a lot more. Supporting > the civilian authorities in times of disaster, assisting in > humanitarian missions, peacekeeping, defending the nation and > supporting the NATO mission are only a few. It does not mean being the > equivalent of a war hungry mad dog. > > Furthermore the military's mission never meant just get out when the > shooting was over.For instance look at how long the US was in Germany, > - there was a four year gap between the end of WW2 and the start of the > Cold War where the US was an occupying force. Similarly with Japan. You > leave when its time not when the shooting is over. And not when > political PR hacks hang a banner over the bridge of an Aircraft carrier > that says "Mission Accomplished" when things are just getting started. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
