The generals on the ground said that almost all the insurgency was internal resistance fighters (never mind there was no "al Qaeda" there to begin with), though there has been a very lot of the violence staged by "our" side to keep the conflicts going.
We did withdraw for nam, and the Soviet Union fell. Israel doesn't support individual rights, only some individual's rights. None of it really matters though unless you want to be the policemen of the world, like you say you don't, but seem to prove that you approve, every time you defend these types of actions. And as far as Rand goes, she rejected the libertarian movement anyways. Goat Bob Giramma wrote: > I don't quite understand your comment. Are you saying you think the US > military would have enslaved and killed Iraqis if not for the insurgency and > foreign invasion by al Qaeda? What would be the purpose of that? Do you > know anyone in the US military? > > BTW, some interesting ideas on war from Ayn Rand are below [ref: Wikipedia]. > Read them first as they are, then with "Vietnam" replaced by "Iraq," and > "Israel" replace by "America," and "Arab" and "communists" replaced by > "Islamist." > > Rand opposed the stated reasons for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War,[32] > but also believed that unilateral American withdrawal would be a mistake of > appeasement that would embolden communists and the Soviet Union.[31] > > Rand supported Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which she saw as an > attack by a primitive society on a government that supported individual > rights. >
