Comments on: Does America Have The Stomach For War Anymore? http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:22:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Can This Be Right? | FITSNews For Now http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-28157 Can This Be Right? | FITSNews For Now Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:59:14 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-28157 [...] stomach for war may be getting a little bit stronger, but it remains to be seen whether or not our country’s [...] [...] stomach for war may be getting a little bit stronger, but it remains to be seen whether or not our country’s [...]

]]> By: Is This Any Way To Fight A Friggin' War? | FITSNews For Now http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-16883 Is This Any Way To Fight A Friggin' War? | FITSNews For Now Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:28:49 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-16883 [...] people off the face of the earth, but as we’ve written in the past we’re not sure America has the stomach to fight real wars anymore. And since it’s apparently politically-incorrect to nuke anybody, [...] [...] people off the face of the earth, but as we’ve written in the past we’re not sure America has the stomach to fight real wars anymore. And since it’s apparently politically-incorrect to nuke anybody, [...]

]]> By: wallace http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-1025 wallace Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:36:46 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-1025 OOPS....evangelical.. sorry bout that. OOPS….evangelical..

sorry bout that.

]]> By: wallace http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-1024 wallace Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:35:01 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-1024 Our soldiers can win this war. Our political class can not. Please, for God's sake, bring our men and women home. Bring them home now. Yesterday 9 of our finest died...and for what? Bring them home now...in 30 days. not 9 months, not 15 months...now. Signed, A Life long conserative and right wing evangical... Our soldiers can win this war. Our political class can not.

Please, for God’s sake, bring our men and women home. Bring them home now. Yesterday 9 of our finest died…and for what?

Bring them home now…in 30 days. not 9 months, not 15 months…now.

Signed,
A Life long conserative and right wing evangical…

]]> By: Earl http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-1023 Earl Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:50:06 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-1023 Word. Word.

]]> By: Silence Dogood http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/04/24/does-america-have-the-stomach-for-war-anymore/#comment-1022 Silence Dogood Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:13:29 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1017#comment-1022 It may be hard to do comparisons. After all, this conflict has already lasted longer than almost any other major military conflict in the history of our nation. Secondly, in the age of fear mongering (read terrorism) it is hard to make the enemies as tangible. Terrorism is a tactic, NOT a group of people. After Pearl Harbor, it was hard to deny we had a tangible and easily defineable enemy. The overwhelming majority of attackers on Sept. 11th were from Saudi Arabia. Iraq's involvement in 9-11 was non-existent, but quite arguably without Sept. 11th there would never have been enough national sentiment to go into Iraq. The fear and suspicion generated by 9-11 was harnassed to invade Iraq when quite arguable, WMD's or no WMD's we could have just bombed the sites in Iraq that we felt were a threat the way the Israeli's did in the 1980's - but don't forget again, and once more Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11th. Getting into Iraq or not, whether one agrees with it or not, was a spin campaign designed to capatilize on post 9-11 sentiment. All our reasons for going to war in Iraq have melted away and hence our resolve to stay there. The confliction of the American people is in large part it that we have completely wrecked the damn place based wholey on our own feelings of insecurity - and quite naturally now we feel we owe them something, but God knows what that is because we sure as hell can give them security or stability. We have tried to unsuccessfully to grant them the one thing they probably don't need which is representative democracy by demanding they accept. "You are free to choose any form of government you wish. . .as long as it is also one we wish. . .and if you elect the wrong people we start over. . .fair enough. . .well, it doesn't really matter if you agree." This is horrendously laughable and pitiful at the same time. In a war where it is now painfully apparent the only exit plan the President ever saw was his departure from office, it is not too difficult to see why people seem a tad disillusioned. If I had something I wanted to people to go along with and my reasons kept melting away, I lilke the U.S. Attorney in this piece would start crying "chicken" also to see if I could get people not to leave my side. It may be hard to do comparisons. After all, this conflict has already lasted longer than almost any other major military conflict in the history of our nation. Secondly, in the age of fear mongering (read terrorism) it is hard to make the enemies as tangible. Terrorism is a tactic, NOT a group of people. After Pearl Harbor, it was hard to deny we had a tangible and easily defineable enemy. The overwhelming majority of attackers on Sept. 11th were from Saudi Arabia. Iraq’s involvement in 9-11 was non-existent, but quite arguably without Sept. 11th there would never have been enough national sentiment to go into Iraq. The fear and suspicion generated by 9-11 was harnassed to invade Iraq when quite arguable, WMD’s or no WMD’s we could have just bombed the sites in Iraq that we felt were a threat the way the Israeli’s did in the 1980′s – but don’t forget again, and once more Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11th. Getting into Iraq or not, whether one agrees with it or not, was a spin campaign designed to capatilize on post 9-11 sentiment. All our reasons for going to war in Iraq have melted away and hence our resolve to stay there. The confliction of the American people is in large part it that we have completely wrecked the damn place based wholey on our own feelings of insecurity – and quite naturally now we feel we owe them something, but God knows what that is because we sure as hell can give them security or stability. We have tried to unsuccessfully to grant them the one thing they probably don’t need which is representative democracy by demanding they accept. “You are free to choose any form of government you wish. . .as long as it is also one we wish. . .and if you elect the wrong people we start over. . .fair enough. . .well, it doesn’t really matter if you agree.” This is horrendously laughable and pitiful at the same time.

In a war where it is now painfully apparent the only exit plan the President ever saw was his departure from office, it is not too difficult to see why people seem a tad disillusioned.

If I had something I wanted to people to go along with and my reasons kept melting away, I lilke the U.S. Attorney in this piece would start crying “chicken” also to see if I could get people not to leave my side.

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