Originally posted by island_dude
" With this administration, politics override all other considerations (such as competence and ethics). "
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Originally posted by Seahawk
With just THIS administration!?!
Good lord, Dude, what about "politics" escapes you?
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Apparently peoples memories only go back six years?
Anyone remember a place called Somalia, and a SecDef named Aspen?
A man who, against the specific request of the on-scene commander, denied US troops the heavy armored vehicles and AC-130H Specter Gunships that they'd requested to support our continuing Clinton ordered "Snatch and grab" operations of Aideed's top deputies?
That was done for "political considerations", and pulling out like cowards with our tails between our legs a mere week or so after some of our troops were drug around-dismembered- through the streets of Mogadishu was likewise a "political consideration."
It was also a g-damned national disgrace, and the one incident Osama Bin Laden has repeatedly pointed to as the very moment he knew that "The Us is weak and can be beaten."
The VERY THING that so many want us to do in Iraq is what convinced OBL to attack us to begin with.
As i've said for years, the only lesson history teaches is that man forgets all of histories lessons.