Question about disability payments

Regardless if you think the deaths of your own troops were in vain or not, you can't argue about the foolishness of squandering your fighting manpower and hundreds of billions (if not trillions of your tax dollars) on those foolhardy military campaigns.

Or do you insist that that too was no loss?

Reply to
Oliver Wendell Douglas
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Did you even make an attempt to look at the other side of the coin BEFORE your claimed they were "foolhardy military campaigns" ?? Or does the other side of the coin not count in your definition ?

Reply to
Atila Iskander

Aha!.. is that the new slogan you Neocons are peddling these days: =93these= wars were an =91investment=92 in the future=94?. First you noeidiots tried= =93Weapons of Mass Destruction=94 which didn=92t work, then you tried =93B= ringing Freedom=94 and that didn=92t work, now you=92re trying =93, these w= ars were an "investment" in the future=94 bull s. Give it up. The only peop= le that you will convince are neoidiots just like you.=20

And I=92m sure you don=92t mean to accept Obama as your president, if so I = would like a citation where Obama referred to the wars as an investment.=20

Reply to
recyclebinned

A reasonable question and it deserves a reasonable answer.

I consider our adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan:

  1. An "investment" in any potential near or medium-term necessity of a similar nature.
  2. I'd rather have our "warrior class" killing people over there than over here.
  3. Common sense says that our adventures dissuaded rascally behavior on others inclined similarily to Sadaam.
  4. "Foolhardy" is in the eye of the beholder. I consider the killing of crazed Mohammadens priceless.
  5. We decidedly did not "squander" our fighters - we TRAINED them.

It may be said that our activities in the Middle East merely incited a batch of fanatics as much as it tempered the dreams of the rational. Good. Bring 'em out of the closet and into the street where they can be more easily killed.

I think that's called "natural selection" (or maybe "survival of the fittest").

Reply to
HeyBub

No, Obama never said war was an investment. He did say, however, that Solyndra et al were investments. If he can make such a claim with a straight face, you should grant me the same believability.

Reply to
HeyBub

Did you get into law school via affirmative action?

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krw

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