Hirsh: Can the U.S. Afford to Stay in Iraq? - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com: "Now Rumsfeld and Bush, by pre-emptively launching a war, have undercut that lesson. Until recent events, the American and Israeli armies were generally judged the most advanced in the world. In the Arab world they were seen as all but invulnerable. Today the failures of those armies against Islamist guerrillas in Iraq and Lebanon have conveyed the very opposite of the message Bush wanted to send. If the current situation continues, with America bogged down in Iraq and Israel mired in its fight against Hizbullah, then the presumption of U.S-Israeli military invincibility--which has kept Arab extremists in place for decades--will be exposed as a myth. That could embolden Islamist radicals for a long time to come. Unless he is prepared to spend a lot more on his military, defense analysts say, the president who so badly wanted to project strength will be remembered mainly for projecting weakness."
Well, I for one all ready believe that the resident and his puppet masters have all ready displayed and projected their weakness. But on another subject, do we really think that spending more money might be the solution? We all ready spend more than the top 10 (20, 100?) armies in the world.... how much more can one spend and realize: maybe it is not about the spend? Maybe this equation comes down to more (less?) than money.
Well, I for one all ready believe that the resident and his puppet masters have all ready displayed and projected their weakness. But on another subject, do we really think that spending more money might be the solution? We all ready spend more than the top 10 (20, 100?) armies in the world.... how much more can one spend and realize: maybe it is not about the spend? Maybe this equation comes down to more (less?) than money.
