The establishment of stable government and an end to terrorism.
Technology is one thing, skills and professionalism are another – in more than 40 years in the Army and working with troops in projects after retirement, I’ve never seen more skilled and professional troops.
When they fought with swords on horseback, that was one thing. When they take up international terrorism, make and use weapons of mass destruction, and present a threat to the whole world, it’s another.
Very true, but what has made them do those things?
Well, either Big Oil Companies held guns to their heads and MADE them do it, or they did it of their own free will.
How about something realistic.
What’s unrealistic about free will?
I thought that was to be the Iraqis’ job. Or are we going to have soldiers there indefinitely.
I’ll concede skilled as that’s quantifiable. I don’t concede professionalism as that’s a judgment call, and the officers I served with 30+ years ago lacked nothing in professionalism.
If it was that simple, we would be trying to annihilate them, not help them.
It’s everyone’s job – walking away and leaving the job unfinished would disasterous to our National Security. It would encourage the terrorists.
If you had an opportunity to work with the New Breed, you’d see they have taken professionalism to a whole new level.
You do understand that Muslims are human beings? You do understand that when you paint a whole class of human beings as evil and deserving of annihilation, you are doing something immoral?
I agree with you on that point and I thank your service. When the Vietnam veterans returned from their service I was in college and I was not as grateful as I should have been since our country was in the midst of controversy and protest. It was expecially on my campus.
Yes, I guess we have seen many of the knuckleheads on TV. I have personally met many that I **do **consider above average, so pardon my bias.
You might misunderstand my posts. It was my husband that served during the Vietnam War era. He was not in Vietnam. He served full time 2 years and then 20 + years in the Army Reserves. It is my daughter that is currently serving and will return for her second deployment to the Middle East as a helicopter pilot.
What I’m getting at is why do the Taliban and other terrorist organizations do what they do against the west?
They do what they do for the same reasons the Nazis murdered 12 million people in the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge killed some 2 million people after taking over Cambodia.
I am just trying to say that the reason for going to Iraq is not unadulterated altruism.
Why would any human action have to be “unadulterated altruism?”Thank you Scott. I am not the brightest bulb in the basement.Code:
Christ is risen…truly He is risen!
Shoshana
My 2 cents back at you and friends of course! We can agree to listen to each other. God Bless! 
My 2 cents back at you and friends of course! We can agree to listen to each other. God Bless!
Christ is risen…truly H eis risen!
Shoshana
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