Reply #49: This war cannot be won [View All]

[quaker bill]

What about 50 years of the Israeli experience does not make this clear? As repressive as they have been, they are still getting blown up.

There is 850 thousand tons of munitions laying about in unsecure locations that we know of in Iraq. That would be 1.7 billion pounds of high explosives.

At the rate we can destroy the stuff, it will take 18 years. That is just the stuff we know about. 18 years, if they do not bring more in.

We will be a magnet for terrorists in perpetuity or for as long as we are there. It is our choice.

We can stay there, kill and be killed, or we can give this country back to it's own people and get the hell out of dodge. There is no easily identifiable enemy, no massed formations to blow up, all of our high tech advantages are rendered moot in this kind of war.

Nothing breeds terrorists like the police state needed to attempt to control them. A man who will martyr himself for the cause is difficult to deter with harsh punishment.

This should never have been a war. It was a problem better approached by constructive engagement and economic empowerment plans.

The notion that we can impose our will on the middle east is insane. It will be our undoing, if pursued. We need to get out while we still can.