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Originally Posted by cullennewsom
Ah, I don't share that belief.
I see, you're trying to rationalize our presence there with the let-us-be-big-brother-to-the-world argument. I don't buy it. We're there for resources, either to steal them, or to keep someone else from stealing them.
Or it might not be any worse than what we did to Nevada  and New Mexico during the cold war.
I'm not buying it, and I don't think anyone else is either. |
You may not buy it but you are not the one responsible for making the decisions about it. I recently read Bob Woodward's book "Obamas wars".
In it was a long description of the discussion within the administration about why we are there and what is hoped to be accomplished and how to bring it to an end. This is the source of many of the ideas I presented.
In it the military leaders in general were pressing for more troops with no thoughts of an end game (how to get us out). Secretary Clinton pretty much aligned herself with them.
It was Biden and the President who pressed for plans using less troops and with a definate plan for getting out.
One small bomb tested in Nevada is no comparison to a nuclear exchange in which multiple warheads of (presumably) much larger capacity are exploded.
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