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Old 07-25-2006, 12:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tadpole256
Afghanistan wants us to stay too... they want the free hand-outs. It's a brilliant tactic they have. They attack us just enough to keep us over here, because they know that as long as we stay we will dump truck loads of money into fixing this shit hole they call a country, and we will give them lots of hand outs.
To me, that's one of the issues we need to consider about these messes.
Why is it our problem? Why should we have to sort out the world's woes?

The decision to go into Afghanistan was a no-brainer.
The decision to go into Iraq? Partly a 20/20 hind-sight issue, partly a judgment call. Don't want to get bogged down into that.

But like any good party (or bad party), there comes a time when you have to make a decision on when to go home.
And considering the multi-billion dollar price tags involved, it's a decision which should not hide behind empty rhetoric.

On a darkly sarcastic level, totally ignoring the issues of loss of life, could Japan's decision to attack America be viewed as an "investment" considering how much they ended up gaining out of losing the war?
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