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Agnesjack (not verified) says:
To Ross Odom:
You seem to be deliberately missing the point.
When McCain said: "Well, that's history. That's the past," he is making the most egregious blunder. It has been said that those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat the mistakes of history. John McCain is willfully ignoring the lesson of an ill-conceived, poorly executed, painfully destructive, foreign policy blunder. Vietnam was the same way. The powers that be could not admit that they had made an enormous mistake, which is why it took us so long to get out of there, resulting in so many more unnecessary deaths (perhaps you are not old enough to remember the mess of Viet Nam, but I am).
It is not a liberal or conservative issue. It's an issue of stubbornly "staying the course" because Bush, Cheney and now, McCain, do not have the courage to admit that, perhaps, the course chosen was wrong. The anti-war people (who, incidentally are not all liberals -- some are even military people), are remembering the past and trying to prevent another wasteful war that results in useless deaths and provides no positive gain.
Please tell me what the positive gains of this war are (and please do not respond with "taking points"). I'd like to know what you, just you, with your own research and thoughtful consideration of this issue, thinks the positive gains are?
To Ross Odom:
You seem to be deliberately missing the point.
When McCain said: "Well, that's history. That's the past," he is making the most egregious blunder. It has been said that those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat the mistakes of history. John McCain is willfully ignoring the lesson of an ill-conceived, poorly executed, painfully destructive, foreign policy blunder. Vietnam was the same way. The powers that be could not admit that they had made an enormous mistake, which is why it took us so long to get out of there, resulting in so many more unnecessary deaths (perhaps you are not old enough to remember the mess of Viet Nam, but I am).
It is not a liberal or conservative issue. It's an issue of stubbornly "staying the course" because Bush, Cheney and now, McCain, do not have the courage to admit that, perhaps, the course chosen was wrong. The anti-war people (who, incidentally are not all liberals -- some are even military people), are remembering the past and trying to prevent another wasteful war that results in useless deaths and provides no positive gain.
Please tell me what the positive gains of this war are (and please do not respond with "taking points"). I'd like to know what you, just you, with your own research and thoughtful consideration of this issue, thinks the positive gains are?