Rabbit, let's let him explain that comment.
I'm sure I'm going to just love this one.
Siaf, I don't doubt that. I'm sure you realize most American return that sentiment.
Still the somewhat continual drumbeat of beeching about Bush, about Amreeka's foreign policy, the comparisons to Hitler, etc., etc. get pretty tiresome.
Why? Because here's the bottom line as Colin Powell put it so eloquently:
"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace.
But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works."
I think that statement resonates very deeply amongst a very large number of American families that have lost relatives when we have gone forth from our shores.
Say all you like about "national interest" but the bottom line is that unlike Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia, we returned home to seek our own lives in peace.
We'll leave Afghanistan before too awfully long after helping to establish a freely elected government. The same can be said about Iraq. Now whether or not those folks have the gumption and grit to maintain their freedom remains to be seen. It's not an easy thing by any means; there will be problems.
That's the reason I think so many of us American get majorly P.O.'d when we see the comparisons to Hitler and such.
