| I am on a roll, so I hope you all do not mind listenning and giving your opinion. I have to start by saying that I am a hard core conservative. (Sometimes I say I am a republican but right now they are ticking me off) I am a huge supporter of the military and wish that I had served but circumstances made it difficult. (Not that is an excuse but Physically I am still paying for things I did earlier in my life) Anyway, I was wondering what anyones thoughts were on Somalia and Africa? It ticks me off that we had a chance in 1993 to take care of this but because Clinton did not have the gonads to stay the course I think we will be there next if we are not in this ISREAL/The whole middle east war. I watched a special on the Black Hawk Down situation in 1993. Clinton in my opinion got those guys killed and even in the special they indirectly (And directly. One of the fathers of one the fallen Rangers blamed Clinton in a hearing, saying that while he was on the golf course and denying the neccesary gunships and armour for backup while his son was dying) say that not having the right backup (armour) really made the difference. I am sure there are other reasons but I know this is a main reason. That should tell people how tough our men and women are and especially our spec ops troops. They were under all those odds and still made that mission a complete success, from a mission objective stand point. They were up against of a whole city of pissed off people.(I am from Pittsburgh, Pa and sometimes I imagine myself being dropped in the middle of Pittsburgh without knowing the odds are already against me, not having the proper back-up and having to fight and see my fellow soldiers die. It is hard to imagine. They succeded by capturing their target but just got screwed by old Billy boy and the rest of the powers above. We went in there to "help" the people of Somalia. I am not saying we should not have stepped in, after all over 300,000 people were getting slaugheterd but you stay the course. Thats the American politicians, get involved and then when it is not popular anymore or it will affect you politically you cut and run and who cares who gets screwed. (I want to make this clear, this has nothing to do with our fine men and women in our military who fight for our freedom everyday. This is directed to the higher powers.) Look at what happened with Chiang Kai-Chek and Mao Tse Tung in the early part of the 1900's. We were backing the man that believed in democracy and our allie (MAO) and the russians were backing Chek. We quit backing Mao and the Russians and Chek gained power and china has been communist ever since. Now we have to deal with it. Same in Nam and Korea. Everyone wants to say "why the Vietnam war and why Vietnam"? My opinion is why not? Were we just supposed to let communism spread everywhere? It just happened there at that time. Same with Korea. We could have stayed the course. Now we have to deal with Mr. weapons of mass destruction, kim jong a-hole. My point is if we had stayed the course in 1993 and helped defeat radical Islam in that region then (And they knew it was radical islam then and knew how dangerous it was they just didn't want to say it was Islam) then we wouldn't have to go right back in there eventually, which think is exactly where we will be in the next couple of years if not sooner. Northern Africa and places like the phillipines makes Afghan, Iran, Iraq and the rest of the middle east look docile. The phillipines is something like 90% Muslim. This spreads like the plague. I might be harsh but I think a lot of people feel this way. There is a story which cannot be confirmed about a U.S. general in, I believe the Phillipines in 1911. Radical Islamic terrorist were acting up and to put a stop to it the general ordered the U.S. soldiers to take the dead terrorist that they already killed and bury them in graves with pigs blood, guts and all kinds of swine parts. They then took the blind fold off of the last survivor that they let live of the group and showed him. He was so freaked out and went back and told the rest and you did not hear anything about terrorism in thast area for something like 50 years. (For anyone who does not know Muslims hate pigs worse than Jewish people. Jewish people just won't eat it because they look at them as unclean but Muslims take it further and think that if they eat, come in contact with them or their blood then they are not clean and cannot go to heaven) Since these people do not care about dying and think that all infidels must die and there will be 11 or whatever amount of virgins waiting for them in heaven then we should make it a point to use this to our benefit. There is also a story of marines that supposedly dipped there bullets in bacon grease before they went into Fallujah and made sure the resistence knew but I do not know if this is true. Anyway, I am just angry because people always ask me "why we don't just leave Iraq?" They do not know histo |
