Rossputin.com: Rational Thinking About Our World

Ok, now we completely disagree. As the Registered Democrat wife of a Career Military man, I take issue with your comments here. Please, no lumping of Democrats allowed.

You state: (Yes, there are and have been plenty of Republican isolationists as well, but at least they don't argue to use the military in situations where we shouldn’t.)

Um, Ross? Osama bin Laden isn't in Iraq. He's probably in Pakistan now, but he was in Afganistan. Iraq didn't attack us. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Republicans don't argue to use the military in situations where we shouldn't???? Does Weapons of Mass Destruction ring a bell?

Being in the military circle so to speak, I support that my husband does exactly as he's expected to do every day. I expect him to follow the President's instructions, even when I completely disagree with that President and every decision he's made over the past 4 and a half years.

But, I expect that he is told the truth before he is sent into war. That's the president's job, that's our country's duty to the men and women who die for it. Lying about the reason for going to war with a country who didn't attack us makes me sick to my stomach.

So, as a Democrat who supports the war in AFGHANISTAN and only AFGHANISTAN, I suppose I would be the exception to your statement: "and from World War I until now they oppose using the military to defend our national security..."

There is that THEY word again. Be careful of your generalizations.

Michele,

I've written so much about this previously that I don't want to spend a lot of time rehashing it.

I don't believe WMD was the real reason we went into Iraq, and it was a big mistake by the administration to sell the war based on WMD.

You should keep in mind that much of the time when I'm talking about "Democrats", I mean those Democrats in positions of political power, and not you.

Iraq may indeed have turned out to be a disaster, but I continue to believe that this adventure was taken on in true belief that it was compellingly, if indirectly, in our national security interest. This is far different from Clinton's involvement in Bosnia or Somalia.

I will stand by my generalization, but agree that more Dems than usual supported going into Afghanistan. I suppose the image of the smoking Twin Towers was compelling even for them.