tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27295230.post116823009375292258..comments2023-08-25T10:47:28.615-04:00Comments on Dover Citizen: Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763905164821434222noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27295230.post-1169005811716524382007-01-16T22:50:00.000-05:002007-01-16T22:50:00.000-05:00I like your thinking, but I don't think it quite a...I like your thinking, but I don't think it quite applies to Iraq. <BR/><BR/>The Iraqis are fighting each other not us. We just get in the way sometimes. Our casualties a low esp. when compared to theirs. They suffer more in a day than we do in a month.<BR/><BR/>My reading is that in situations like that you get full fledged civil war if we leave too soon. To leave those innocent formerly oppressed souls to the mercy of Saddam's loyalists and Bin Laden's disciples strikes me as most unChristian. If you break it, you buy it. We gave our word and we need to keep it even if it costs us. The cost of not doing so is higher. <BR/><BR/>No one wants to see us home more than I. My friends are over there, I had family over and maybe going back. Hey, I may go over. The problem is that cutting and running has two principle objections. First is that it would be spitting on the graves of those who died by making their sacrifice meaningless. Second, the terrorists are fighting us in Iraq merely because it is closer to them than LA or NY. These people hate us so much that they would hide explosives in a baby to take down a plane. We have to fight. We are not fighting for Iraq though that would be honorable, we are fighting for our way of life. That is something I am willing to defend by any means necessary. <BR/><BR/>Some examples of my theory of civil war and foreign intervention in recent history are Spain,Congo, China, and Cambodia. <BR/><BR/>In Spain foreign intervention tipped the civil war. In Congo the UN cutting the rug out of Katanga led to a massacre. In <BR/>China, the Japanese exhausted the forces of Chang and Mao gained an inadvertent advantage. In Cambodia, the American Congress cut and ran, the result was a holocaust of two million or more.<BR/><BR/>Apples to Apples, Mr. Polk.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14763905164821434222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27295230.post-1168723436033498652007-01-13T16:23:00.000-05:002007-01-13T16:23:00.000-05:00William Polk, who recently co-wrote a book called ...William Polk, who recently co-wrote a book called the Practical Guide to Leaving Iraq, said yesterday, that when you study insurrections, even our own, their first precipitates start as a response to foreign troops on their soil. <BR/><BR/>And once troops are pulled, the citizens, weary of the fighting, themselves stop supporting and/or put down the insurrection. <BR/><BR/>If we could dephase our aggressive posture, and step up our posture of helpfulness both economically and humanitarian, we would be doing far more good worldwide for America as well as for Christianity.<BR/><BR/>If the world were given the chance to see the goodness of Christains versus the "badness" of Moslems, the Jihad would be finished...Instead, outside observors see both sides as exhibiting bad behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27295230.post-1168698015982915742007-01-13T09:20:00.000-05:002007-01-13T09:20:00.000-05:00No joke, it don't view the average Moslem as the e...No joke, it don't view the average Moslem as the enemy. I have a different understanding of God and perspective on the world. That does not make us enemies.<BR/><BR/>The one's who are enemies are the one's who want to kill us. They must be defeated.<BR/><BR/>Most Moslems are not in that group. There are a billion Moslems and if they were all militants, they could take over most of the world in a month (unless we were willing to go nuclear). The radicals are not a majority and I believe our first task is to win the hearts and minds of their potiential recruits. We can do that with radical love. Love your neighbor like you love yourself.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment my friend.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14763905164821434222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27295230.post-1168287718611646052007-01-08T15:21:00.000-05:002007-01-08T15:21:00.000-05:00Friend, help a brother out.I am not sure if your "...Friend, help a brother out.<BR/><BR/>I am not sure if your "radical love" is a joke or meant in all seriousness.<BR/><BR/>If serious, than I am all for it. It is much harder to put a bullet throught one you love very much, than through one you hate. <BR/><BR/>Embracing one's enemies is an effective method of controlling the playing field, taught in all business schools. If it works so well, should it not be used against this Moslem threat?<BR/><BR/>The opposite approach, to antagonize the opposition, solidifies their resolve and creates a situation that only by all out eradication, can we resolve our differences. Once resolved, one has to begin making payments on the cost.........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com