WHY ARE WE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ?

In 1946 in a speech to Westminster College in Missouri, Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” At the time war weary Europe and America condemned his speech as war mongering. How profoundly correct Churchill proved to be about Soviet expansionism! Not just content with Eastern Europe, with the help of Communist China the Bolsheviks in sticking to their doctrine of dominating the world, embarked upon taking over Asia.

The Vietnam War became the largest battleground defending democracy over communism. No matter how unpopular the war became, America could claim it was defending freedom. In the end Taiwan, South Korea and all Pacific Rim nations south of Vietnam owe their prosperity to America’s stand against communism. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, America decided Iraq and Afghanistan needed to be freed from the clutches of evil and here we are now involved in conflicts that are even more unwinnable than Vietnam ever was. Where are the anti-Vietnam protestors now? Thousands of lives have been needlessly lost for what? For a bunch of Muslim thugs that have the blessing of those in power in both countries.

I say those two countries; Afghanistan and Iraq, along with Iran and Pakistan have a Stone Age mentality that prevails above all else and simply cannot be broken. Let’s get out of those hell holes now and allow those angry zealots and their neighbors to duke it out amongst themselves so their civilization can return to the dark ages. Their nonsense has no chance of spreading the way Soviet Communism did. With the $billions saved per month, Washington can put that back into re-building America.

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