Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: September 29, 2009 07:50PM

The question that begs to be asked here is what should have been done that would have avoided the current situation.

Care to fill us in, anyone, anyone .... anyone

blinkermann Report This Comment
Date: September 29, 2009 09:51PM

Probably nothing could have been done, but with the benefit of hindsight, maybe we would have left Saddam in power a little longer, put everything into Afghanistan and put more military pressure on Iran.

I am not saying that would have worked, it is just something that could have been done differently.

maddie Report This Comment
Date: September 29, 2009 10:16PM

Well we know what doesn't work. Avoiding them for 8yrs and refusing to get them to the talking table and then refering to them as "The Axis of Evil" and then propaganding your either with us or against us put Iran into full Nuclear Production.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: September 29, 2009 11:03PM

how many times can one person be wrong there maddie? Achmapeniswad thinks he's fulfilling some sort of justifiable prophetic genocide....wake up son.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: September 29, 2009 11:26PM

No worries anyway. Adeemarhinoplasty won't fuck with us anymore, not with his Bro in the White House. Or haddn ya heard, they're Podnuhs

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2009 10:34AM

One sure fire way to make the middle east happy is to destroy the economy and bankrupt the US.

The only way to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is to carpet bomb the entire country. Sanctions will not work and neither will military regime change like in Iraq. Bomb them back to the stone-age and it will be a long time before they can threaten anyone.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2009 03:46PM

carpet bombin' them "back" into the stone age is redundant, we will only build them back up at our own expense. i've never understood that reasoning. if you bomb the shit out of someone/thing, you want them done for a long time.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: October 01, 2009 09:51AM

I agree Fossil. We started that bullshit with Japan and never stopped. What we need to do is when we invade a country and win we should rebuild it and take it for ourselves. The phrase "spoils of war" does not mean spend your money repairing it for them, it mean take everything for the winner.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: October 01, 2009 02:14PM

eh...you can't start taking everything or every county you attack. we will be just like the asswipes that decided to try and take over that country. the "shock and awe" bomb the snot out of your enemy theory is nice because it keeps your soldiers out of harms way, but the only way too really beat a nasty regime is to have boots on the ground. collateral damage only serves to demonize the real people in need...the innocent civilians.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: October 02, 2009 11:23AM

Boots on the ground is the only way to win any conflict but that would have collateral damage as well just not as much as bombing the shit out of everything. If we had gone into Iraq and just left after removing Saddam's regime would we not be viewed as asswipes for leaving the people of Iraq to rebuild themselves? Would Iran have used it as an open door to move in and expand their nation after we left? If we do nothing we are viewed as asswipes by the middle east so we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. If Iran is just left alone from now on how long before they and a missile system large enough to carry a nuclear warhead to the US? Diplomacy does not work on nations who just don't care about their standing in the world which is why it will not work on Iran so what should we do about them and their striving for nuclear weapons?