tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post2141872524918685539..comments2023-06-16T09:13:46.330-05:00Comments on gabbygeezer: What Have We Become?Dick Kladehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793395712483278104noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-61694903486952092672011-11-02T10:52:05.206-05:002011-11-02T10:52:05.206-05:00I think the difference in the public's attitud...I think the difference in the public's attitude about the war in Iraq being over and the end of WWII is in the attitude about the wars themselves. Everyone was behind WWII and all citizens helped in anyway they could. (Scrap drives, rationing, etc.) It was a war for our very survival.<br /><br />Iraq was an entirely different kind of war. To many of us, it was an illegal war and not one to be proud of. While we all loved the troops, it's ending is more one of the end of a shameful blot on our history and best forgotten.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-51156995067586013042011-10-28T05:54:43.706-05:002011-10-28T05:54:43.706-05:00Very valid points. It seems we've gone from o...Very valid points. It seems we've gone from one norm, where everyone supported our war efforts as a matter of national unity, to a different one in which war is good only if your party was the one that started it. <br /><br />Or vice versa. When you think about it, it seems it was our unity of purpose during WWII that was the anomaly, with everything else since then, if not before, being controversial in varying degrees. Still, the pervasive divisiveness we experience today is sui generis.JHawk23http://www.morning-fog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-36817916337506855162011-10-25T10:41:25.412-05:002011-10-25T10:41:25.412-05:00Don't forget, we still have troops in Japan, K...Don't forget, we still have troops in Japan, Korea and Germany .. you know, just in case World War II breaks out again.<br /><br />I dunno; it's a messy situation. I guess we should keep some troops in the Middle East, but don't think we'd have to except we need that oil, day after day, month after month, year after year, unless and until we finally do something about our co-dependency.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611148987085476580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-49418558965330434032011-10-24T20:59:49.574-05:002011-10-24T20:59:49.574-05:00Another reason why I didn't vote for John McCa...Another reason why I didn't vote for John McCain!!!! I'm just glad that my brother won't have to go back there!!! Twice is more than enough!Kay Dennisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646717192332313215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-87098258592397725992011-10-24T15:35:32.106-05:002011-10-24T15:35:32.106-05:00Let's see now, McCain and Graham are suggestin...Let's see now, McCain and Graham are suggesting we stay in Iraq for some unspecified length of time because eight years was not enough to accomplish our goal.<br /><br />I thought the goal was to remove Saddam (done that) and eliminate weapons of mass destruction (there weren't any).<br /><br />It would seem a better idea to keep military power elsewhere in the area (as Clinton has said we will) and return with a better-defined mission if we need to.<br /><br />Back in the day, a saying that applies here was prevalent in the U.S. Army: "If they're right, I want to be wrong."Dick Kladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793395712483278104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30802444.post-90052205313704645412011-10-24T10:55:52.273-05:002011-10-24T10:55:52.273-05:00I think McCain's concern as well as that of Li...I think McCain's concern as well as that of Lindsey Graham is that we will have to go back in for a thrid war with Iraq. I hope they are wrong. <br /><br />Many of the troops have been pulled back to Kuwait. The big power struggle in the Mideast is between Persia (Iran) and the Arab Sunni muslims in the western part of the Mideast (and has been for a very long time). Our troops are mostly stationed in areas with Sunni Muslims these days. As long as the Saudis support Israel that will be the case. <br />Dianneschmidleysscribblins,wordpress.comhttp://schmidleysscribblins.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com