I support our troops, but Iraq is an un-winnable situation. The only thing we are going to get out of Iraq is another wall in Washington covered with the names of American kids who died there.

The hand wringing liberals and left leaning politicians in this country have not allowed us to go to war to win since WWII. If the purpose is not to win, what’s the point of going to war in the first place? We’re spreading democracy and winning hearts and minds? Right! I served in Vietnam and I have been to a number of other third world countries. They want what we have, but they don’t necessarily want us.

We can’t issue democracy to these countries and we damned sure can’t force it on them. Democracy is something they have to want bad enough to fight for it themselves. And who are we to say that democracy is right for everybody. Some countries are not culturally set up for democracy, period, and others may not yet be ready for it. When they are, let them find it and fight for it themselves. They will appreciate it more that way.

Another mistake we have repeated in Iraq is getting involved in a war, in a country whose culture we did not understand. Before we bound off and get involved in our next war we should study our own history and do a little homework on our adversary’s culture, maybe see if we had anybody on our side who even spoke the language. If we do have to go to war again, we should go and do what we have to do to win, decisively, and then bring our troops back home as quickly as possible.

I have not been to Iraq, but I can tell you what I think will happen there. No matter how long our troops stay in Iraq, when they leave, the country will divide up along religious and ethnic lines and they will have their own civil war. Sooner or later another strongman man, like Hussein, will pop up and take over and it will be back to square one.

My suggestion, since we don’t seem to be accomplishing what we went there to do, is that we wind up our activities in Iraq and bring our troops home. Then we should give them a parade, send them on leave to visit with families and then assign them to assist the Border Patrol securing our borders. Any troops and money left over should be allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to beef up the Coast Guard and other anti-terrorist defenses.

Korea? We should swat them like a bothersome little fly, and then give their real estate to South Korea. They could use it to build a few more Hundi and tennis shoe factories and maybe set up a Wal-Marts or two. Wal-Marts stuff all comes from China anyway so it would be close. But that is a story for another time.

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