I think ISIS needs to be stopped but I don't think its US that needs to be doing it. The Iraqis threw us out, they and their arab brethren need to stand up and take care of their own problems.
We have no business "fixing" the worlds problems. For one we're not very good at it and for two we really can't afford it either monetarily or from a waste of human life perspective. Iraq has become my generation's Vietnam, all those lives wasted and what do we have to show for it? By any reasonable measure the plight of the average Iraqi is worse today than it was 15 years ago. -Curt ________________________________ From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT but food for thought On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:30:17 -0400 Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not a raging militarist, but how can we turn our backs on the > barbarism that is ISIS? I am not saying that we should. If you read my email, you would have seen, more than once, the phrase, "do our fighting for us." That should have been a clue to my position. Yes, the Muslims, when they do all that the Koran says, are a viscious lot and not the "religion of peace." It is a right and proper thing to use military force, in conjunction with other nations, to stop the barbarism, but we cannot take short-cuts and expect others to do our fighting for us, particularly Muslims against their bretheren. The only way for true peace in the mid-East, however, is for all to acknowledge the Prince of Peace and turn to Him for forgiveness and cleansing. All other methods will ultimately be futile. Unfortunately, our nation is turning away from Him and forgetting what made it great. If we continue, we likewise will have problems. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
