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Old 10-03-2012, 09:58 PM
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it's really too bad we got away from being isolationist. we stayed out of both world wars until we pretty much got our hand forced in the second one...even after the sinking of the lusitania, killing american civies, we still didn't enter ww1 til the zimmerman note.
and then of course we just had to fight communism. sheesh. now, in gulf one, we did it correctly. game hussein plenty of time to get out, got the world together on it, and crushed him quickly and decisively and got kuwait taken care of. one of our few recent foreign policy issues we got perfect. that's probably the only armed conflict since ww2 that we got right.
absolutely...Now if bush2 had read his dad's book we wouldn't be in the mess we are now...
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