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Old 06-29-2005, 12:14 PM   #1
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Just my two cents

Disregarding the reasons or lack thereof, for going to war.

There has never been a war in recent history that we have won and where we have not had to leave substantial amounts of troops behind to restore the damage. We still have troops in Germany and Japan fifty yeasr after we defeated them. And right after the surrenders things weren't much different in Japan and Germany than they are in Iraq right now. But no one wants to point out that piece of history.

We still have troops in Korea almost fifty years after that war. The only place we don't have troops is Vietnam, and that's only because we lost that war.

IMHO short attention span is waay to generous for the American Public's patience with any kind of long term project.

Secondy, think about this. All of the Deocrats and some of the Republican are screaming that Iraq's borders are "porous" and there are thousands of islamic militants coming in every day to fight us. If they are right, then I'm really glad that we are fighting them over there and not in NY and Boston!

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Old 06-29-2005, 12:21 PM   #2
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Name a single country we helped overthrow in the past 25 years that has stuck together.

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Nicaragua and Panama

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Old 06-29-2005, 12:50 PM   #4
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Why did we keep sending troops to Nicaragua then?

1912: U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua and occupy the country almost continuously until 1933.
1933: U.S. Marines finally leave Nicaragua, but are replaced by a well-trained and well-armed National Guard under the control of Anastasio Somoza.
1981: The Reagan Administration begins the war against Nicaragua.
1990: The U.S. intervenes in the Nicaraguan election process through covert and overt means.

That dosen't seem very stable to me.

And the best part:
The economy received a boost in 2004 when the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) agreed to wipe out 80 percent of Nicaragua's debt to the organization.

If Argentina and Chile are an example, looks like all hell is about to break loose again.

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Liikwid,
Nicaragua has been stable since the mid 1980s, and you did specify the last 25 years. If you want to back further, say 50 years, I'll add the big ones, Japan and Germany!

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then why did we have to send in troops to "fix" the elections?

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