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Originally posted by sgtclub
I'm suggesting that we can't nation build without being there. I think this is obvious. If we are not willing to do this, and we are not willing to nuke the entire place, then we might as well just give up.
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I agree that we can't do anything without being there. I don't think we can just give up, either.
I recall that last week you didn't want to pay for this. Have you had a change of heart? If you have, I'm not sure how many others have. I'm not trying to be obtuse here. I see a solution, but I don't see it as acceptable to the world.
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Incidentally, the history channel has been running a series called "Revolution" which details the Revolutionary War and it's aftermath. It's funny how many similarities there are between the creation of the US and Iraq. Were you aware that there was a great deal of civil strife in this country after we defeated the British? That Americans took up arms against one another?
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I was aware of this. At least one part of the conflict was over an excise tax on barrels of booze. It was called the Whiskey Rebellion. President Washington ledd the militias of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and several other states against small distillers.
One result of the Rebellion was an object lesson that citizens of the several states would have to seek redress for laws they objected to through the political process. Another result was that many of the losing whiskey men moved to Kentucky and Tennessee, outside the boundaries of the United States. They begat moonshiners, who begat Junior Johnso, who begat Nascar.
