From: "Robert Comer" 

>In 1991 we did NOT "deal" with that as we should have.

Sure we did, we ended the threat.

> We had yet another stupid war like Korea or Vietnam where the aim was
> merely to push the bad guys back within their own borders rather than
> conquer them outright and install new regimes as we did in Japan and
> Germany.

We didn't end those threats like we did Iraq, different situation
altogether.  In Iraq we made it so they couldn't be a threat, rather than
just bottling them up like your other examples.

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:op.szadb6aueipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:42:28 -0400, Robert Comer 
> wrote:
>
>>> But at that point even FRANCE could have stomped him.
>>
>> That's debatable, France depended far to much on the Maginot line, they
>> really weren't thinking they were vulnerable.  Their armed forces weren't
>> state of the art either because of that thinking...
>>
>>> We also saw Saddam take Kuwait and it was perfectly plain Saudi Arabia
>>> was
>>> next.  You don't see that as a threat?
>>
>> And we dealt with that back in 1991 as we should have.  In 2003 that was
>> not
>> so.
>>
>
> Wrong on both counts.  At the beginning of Hitler's reign he prodded and
> probed western resolve to enforce Versailles long before rearming and
> found us wanting.  In 1991 we did NOT "deal" with that as we
should have.
> We had yet another stupid war like Korea or Vietnam where the aim was
> merely to push the bad guys back within their own borders rather than
> conquer them outright and install new regimes as we did in Japan and
> Germany.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

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