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In reply to the discussion: I realize this is not a popular sentiment, but I don't give a damn [View all]locks
(2,012 posts)Sorry, hughee, that I didn't put a "sarcasm" on my first response. And thanks, nomore, for noticing. I appreciate all the responses to this great post. But finding it hard not to feel disappointed, dismayed, disgusted, and depressed by the way our beloved nation is once more being drawn into a stupid and unnecessary war. I have lived through so many of them and wept for the millions who died and for the many opportunities we had for world peace that we screwed up.
Yesterday in Reuters online Andrew Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran, wrote "Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the point." He writes: destroying what Obama calls the Islamic State of Iraq won't solve the problems... (in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Israel or Palestine.)
"All the military power in the world won't solve those problems. Obama knows that. Yet he is allowing himself to be drawn back into the very war he once correctly denounced as stupid and unnecessary, mostly because he and his advisers don't know what else to do. Bombing has become his administration's default opinion.
Rudderless and without a compass the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing."