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Originally Posted by 12clicks
hmmmm, our enemies in both those countries are now so busy killing each other, they haven't had time to attack US soil.
If thats failure, I say lets fail some more!
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You could be right. But that could simply be a coincidence. Terrorist attacks on our soil are not a daily occurence, were never close to a yearly or every third year occurance.
If you think we're safer now than before the war, that's cool. Some of us think we're less safe. Some of us even think we were never all that unsafe in the first place, even after september 11.
It's a matter of perspective. We've tallied more casualties in this war than we tailled on 9/11. Plus there are thousands more kids coming back without arms, legs, sight, hearing and worse every day. And because this is a war over ideology, it's never going to be possible to plant a flag and declare victory. American kids will continue to die over there at the same rate in perpetuity.
It also means that short of instituting a mandatory draft, our military resources will have a constant strain on manpower that can be purposed toward other conflicts that occur.
That's the reality. If you believe paying that price ensures america's safety, then you probably support the war. If you don't think it ensures america's safety, you don't.