Training Iraqi Soldiers
I think that training Iraqi soldiers might be a mistake. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Romans do the same thing with the barbarians back around the first half of the first millennium? And didn't the barbarians then use that training against the Romans and defeat them? It's inconceivable that no one in the current administration is aware of that. I see a couple of explanations for what we're doing:
1) I'm wrong, and I should just keep my mouth shut.
2) Bush is trying to please two groups of people, those who think we're a great nation perfectly justified in stomping on our supposed enemies, and those who don't like seeing a lot of people killed so that companies like Halliburton can make a lot of money. In order to win both groups, he needs to end this war before too many people figure out the real reason behind it, and he needs it to end in an apparent victory so that those take pride in America's strength aren't disappointed. This is the only way the Bush administration can think of to accomplish both. Come to think of it, that's the same reason why the Romans trained their enemies to fight.
posted by LeRoy at 6:39 AM
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Disclaimer: I do not think you are wrong. We should not train Iraqi soldiers.
But on point number two, I think it is too simplistic.
The way I see it is that there's an action taking place (war in Iraq). This war was not started by one man (Bush). The president can't just say, "Lets go to war!" and we go to war. It just doesn't work like that. A bunch of people agreed to go to war.
Now, since you can never get a bunch of people to agree on everything, I don't believe that the group of people that decidsed to go to war agreed on every reason for going to war. They just agreed on one thing, going to war.
So, these people had different reasons for going to war. Some were probably motivated by money. Some wre probably motivated by revenge for 9/11. Some were probably motivated by racism against Muslims. And some were probably motivated by their hatred of Saddam. The point is that there are a lot of reasons why we are at war and some of those reasons are not good reasons and some of those reasons are very good reasons.
To blame one man is over simplifying it.
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