re: #227 drcordell

Here is where we differ. I support the ideals of freedom for the Iranian and Iraqi people. But I don’t think that my nation should borrow $1 trillion dollars from the Chinese and lose the lives of 5,000 good citizens in an attempt to provide it for them. I think America has enough problems of its own to worry about right now quite frankly.

Nobody here seems to recognize that you can find a dictator awful, repugnant and evil, but at the same time not wish to spend $1 trillion dollars fighting a war to have him deposed. If dictators everywhere need to be overthrown then why haven’t we also invaded North Korea, Burma, Cuba and Venezuela?

Well, I agree that it would be better if the Iraqis and the Iranians had/will thrown off the yoke of tyranny on their own, like we did. Except we didn’t. We relied heavily on the Dutch and the French, the freakin’ FRENCH, who provided active military support including its navy as well as its army. There is a graveyard of French soldiers in Yorktown. So even we needed help.

We wouldn’t need to borrow from the Chinese if we had our priorities straight.

It would be nice if we could overthrow dictatorships everywhere but obviously we can’t. However, if we do take out a clear and present dictatorial threat and replace it with a republic, and stand by our word (unlike 41) then perhaps that will inspire others.