| I'm not sure what you mean. What, exactly, is declaring victory? Would it have guaranteed an immediate stop to the conflict? I also had no qualms about this war after 9/11. I just think that like Vietnam; we had no clearly defined entrance and exit planning. And we will suffer much the same fate: we win on the battlefield; but we lose politically. The only difference is that the Iraqis have something that America cannot live without-OIL! Vietnam had (and still does not) have anything of value for America. We discarded the lives of too many soldiers to no concievable end there.But what was accomplished?
What I meant by entrance and exit planning is that our politicians did not (and maybe never will) decide what was to be America's mission in Iraq to begin with. The lack of this keeps us from knowing if or when) this mission has truly been accomplished or not. So, our brave forces fight on, while our politicians fumble about trying to place blame on each other for our being there in the first place. And the American public pays more and more each time they pull into a gas station. |