Timelordwho wrote:
If by bashing holes in it you mean not unquestioningly supporting foreign wars, well, I guess you should stop complaining about healthcare reform, too, right?
No. I mean voting for the wars, publicly declaring your support for "the troops", but then doing everything you can to sabotage the war effort itself. Oh wait? You mean when you said we needed to topple this regime that you meant we'd actually have to send troops in to do this? And they'd have to stay there and help rebuild things? And the timeline for leaving should be dependent on success and not some arbitrary date? No. You once gave a speech in front of a banner that said "Mission Accomplished" so that means we're done and should remove all of our people from the region right now!
Seriously? You honestly don't see how the Left did every single thing they could to try to make Iraq fail? Remember all the demands that we pull out of Iraq "now!" back in 2005, complete with Democrats lining up to declare that the war was lost and there was no hope, so no sense remaining, but the GOP managed to weather that silliness, pushed for a surge instead, and then by mid 2006, things turned around. You don't remember that? It took Obama getting elected and basically ignoring the country until things fell apart for it to fail. And it's still more of a success than it was back in 2005 when the Dems were demanding that we flee like scared little children.
That's what I mean by "poking holes in the canoe". People aren't dying in the ME because the US is too active there, but because we are not active enough. Obama has allowed a region that was headed in the right direction to spin out of control. I'd like to think it's just because he's incompetent (and I'm sure that's at least some of it), but a good part of this is that if things don't fall apart, then it'll look like Bush was right all along. And proving the GOP wrong is more important to the political Left than all the lives that are being lost as a result. That's the sad fact.