Letter: U.S. involved in other countries’ disputes
Monday, July 30, 2007 | 7:04 a.m.
The far left never seems to learn from history. It's always the far left that hollers "do something" to our government when some far-off people start getting their heads blown off by some nasty neighboring country.
They're doing it now, over some African region called Darfur, which they probably couldn't pinpoint on the map anyway.
And sure enough, they'll get us involved. Just like they did in Somalia, Serbia and Kuwait, to name a few. Then when the going gets tough, they're the first to yell "get us out of this mess, we shouldn't have gone there in the first place."
In fact , they were the ones who made the big fuss over the senior President Bush's failure to charge into Bagdad to nail Saddam's hide to the barn door when his army was driven out of Kuwait. In fact, it became a political talking point against him during the following presidential election.
I challenge any historian to dispute the fact that every foreign war we have engaged in, except our war with the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli, was primarily to halt the aggression of one country against another. That includes World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam!
There was never any intent to gain colonial territory, or plunder. We only sought to "chain up the mad dogs." What the hell's wrong with that?
Bill Cramer, Las Vegas
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