Parker wrote:
real threat? lol they had a decade long war with a country we took in 5 days. and even if they did not take part in the 6 days war the arab world still got their asses handed to them.....im sorry but the arab world includes iran, if you dont agree fine. and what since they werent in the 6 day war they are a threat? iran/iraq fiasco....lol. are you not familiar with the power theory in the middle east??? do you know what a power vaccum is? do you know that if iran took iraq there would not be anyone to stop them from taking the rest of the middle east? do you understand that is why they went to war for a decade? but hey since their persians and DIDNT take part in the 67 war they ARE a threat.........
I guess you didn't major in history. Saddam invaded the Shatt Al-Arab waterway belonging to Iran, which triggered the Iran-Iraq war. That's what people would generally describe as an undisputed historical fact.
Your assertion that non-arab speaking non-arabs are in fact arabs is odd to say the least.
The fiasco I speak of was not the Iran/Iraq war but the glaringly inept US performance in Iraq: you've failed there and in Vietnam, why would you believe you can do better anywhere else? War doesn't take place between armies anymore. It takes place between an army and a cunning insurgency. If you want another world of shit on your plate just like Iraq well then go right ahead. Militarily you don't have the numbers to go for it anyway, you've spread yourself too thin. Instead of being concentrated in Afghanistan where the problem was/is, you thought 'lets send 6 times the amount of troops to Iraq'. Nice.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2006-11-14 08:05:10)