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Making this a R vs D thing is silly. Vietnam was Democrat president. Obama has extended our current wars. Most of our wars have had public support at the beginn
by clarky07 13y ago
Making this a R vs D thing is silly. Vietnam was Democrat president. Obama has extended our current wars. Most of our wars have had public support at the beginning, and lost them over time. And as you noted, we've also been instrumental in necessary wars to everyone's benefit.
Hindsight is great and all, but sometimes whether or not a war is necessary can't be seen at the outset. If Saddam had a nuke (and believe me he was certainly trying to get one even if he didn't have one yet), everyone would have considered the Iraq war to be necessary and Bush wouldn't be universally hated. Also, I find it interesting how much sentiment has changed since 2001. After 9/11 everyone was scared, and everyone wanted to find the people responsible and anyone who helped them. 13 years later nobody seems to remember that. The Iraq war was overwhelmingly supported at the beginning. Apparently people just wanted it to be over in 2 weeks.
- stingraycharles 13y agoYou are correct that this shouldn't be made a R vs D thing, since that completely besides the point. I agree with all other points you
- stingraycharles 13y ago+ make (sorry I can't figure out how to edit a post on this iOS client)
- kenrikm 13y agoWW2 Democrat, Korea Republican, Vietnam Democrat, Grenada and Panama Republican (if they even count), First Gulf War Republican, Kosovo Democrat, Second gulf war / Afghanistan Republican. To me it seems that there is not clear pattern, the most I can get out of it "if there is a president, then we might go to war"
- clarky07 13y ago> "if there is a president, then we might go to war" That's great. According to wikipedia, we've been in 117 wars in 238 years. I'd say you're pretty much right on there.
- nickff 13y agoTruman was the president when the US stepped in to help South Korea, and he was a Democrat, not a Republican.
- kenrikm 13y agoGood catch, for some reason I thought Ike was in power at that point.