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Originally Posted by non sequitur
It's comforting to know that the people killing our troops are not our enemies and that we're not trying to defeat them. I guess.
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I don't think we even now make pretense that we will defeat this insurgency.
We claim to hope that the Iraqis will defeat them at some later point.
And I think we have probably given up on that as well.
If this were a war we would be fighting instead of building stuff. And there would be planes, bombs, and tanks.
Our soldiers die as part of the price of dreaming that by hanging around, a liberal democracy will spring forth.
No, it's not a war. It's simply a fool's errand that is costing the lives of American GI's.