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Originally posted by stevepaa
[B]"As the president has made clear," Gates said, "we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come."-
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I tend to agree.
"It was when the Americans fled from Somalia that i knew they could be defeated, that Allah Willing, we would prevail. The Americans are very much weaker than the Russians, who we have already defeated."
~Osama Bin Laden (Paraphrase from memory)
It is a HUGE mistake to think that the world as it exists today will remain as it is today unchanged, that the US will always enjoy prosperity and relative security.
There are enemies out there that would eat our liver raw as soon as look at us, whether we wish to acknowledge it or not. For those of you with a short attention span, they flew 4 jets into our civilian filled buildings not five years ago.
We are at war, next time they're liable to use nukes.