Well of course we disagree. The way it sounds I’m pretty sure we didn’t vote for the same candidate in the primary season nor will we in Nov. Might not have in the previous 2 Presidential cycles either. But that’s ok. It’s America. A free country where we can disagree, thank God. And ok about the power, but as just one for instance, tell that to the Iraqi people who were killed when GWB dropped the bombs. Peace.
And, as Americans, we should be able to disagree peacefully and respectfully. If we could get back to that then perhaps we wouldn’t have such extremists running for president.
War is hell, but it is sometimes better than the alternative.
Liberals (and America-hating leftists) often say that America is a terrible nation because we are the only nation that has ever used atomic/nuclear weapons on another country.
We immediately killed 130,000-250,000 people, mostly civilians. An additional 100,000 people likely died as a direct result of dropping these two bombs.
That is a truly terrible, horrific thing to have done.
But the alternative would most likely have resulted in the deaths of ONE MILLION AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
I had the fortune of having one of those one million soldiers in my emergency department last week. 92 year old guy was sitting on a troop transport ship off the coast of Leyte when the bombs were dropped. He was going to be on the first wave onto mainland Japan.
Instead, he occupied Japan for a few years, came home, married his high school sweetheart, had a bunch of kids and scores of grandkids, and fed America with his ranch.
War is hell, but it is sometimes better than the alternative.
The Hussein regime was hell on many of the Iraqi’s. The war SHOULD have freed the Iraqi people, but it didn’t because we no longer have the political will to actually WIN wars the way we did in the 1940s.
But back to the original premise - our military is not nearly as ready, or strong, as it was in the past. There will come a time when it will not be strong enough.