Why use the military to do a policeman's job?
Last updated 5/10/2007 at Noon
If our National Security goal is to prevent future terrorist attacks, we should be doing more international police work. Sending our military to invade and occupy a middle-Eastern country is fomenting unrest and, according to our own government reports, is actually creating more terrorists.
Modern Superpowers are 0 and 4 in winning wars fought against insurgencies. Russia had Afghanistan and Chechnya; the US had Vietnam and now Iraq. France was defeated in Algeria and Vietnam; England was defeated here in America. The ability of a country to invade, occupy and rule a distant foreign county...
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