Lest we forget

[TomOfSweden]

TomOfSweden,

The current reality is whether the United States is involved in a conflct there or NOT the Middle East and Iraw specificly will see no peace or stability well beyond my life time thier sectarian war will go on for years to come and nothing the United States does will quell this, plus we as a nation have no right to be involved in a sectarian war there, we as a nation have other issues to deal with,, like drug traffacking, homlessness gas prices ect, i would love the see the US put as much tim, effort, energy into solving the problems of our own homeland as we always seem to have policing the world
This does nt mean donothelp other nation, it means let's take care of our own first

Why hasn't USA the right to get involved in a sectarian war? The rest of the world thought it was ok to get involved in the Yugoslav civil war. Korea. Vietnam. A whole number of countries in Africa.

I'm of the complete oposite opinion. It's better for the rest of the world to stop civil wars with violence and force them, (who ever "them" may be) to sort it out through a democratic process. It worked in Yugoslavia so why wouldn't it in Iraq. And I'm sure USA would have been a lot better off without the vast amounts of casualties and structural damage of the American civil war. Civil wars are always a bigger disaster than ordinary wars because they tend to go on for much longer.

Their used to be a say "If you want and need your country rebuild get into a war with the United States, they will happily rebuild your country for you"

I'm going to go right ahead and assume this is your atempt at humour and that you don't actually believe this.