When should we leave Afghanistan & Iraq?

Picture this: A woman sits in a college classroom as a student. She is studying for a degree in her countries history with the goal of becoming a teacher, one of those charged with the opportunity to educate and enlighten the children, the next generation.

This woman is not alone, she is one of many women who are enrolled in various state and private institutions of learning. She can work to earn a salary, own property and even participate as a voter in the next election.

Name this country....

You don't have enough information. If your guess was the USA, you would be correct only if the time table was current. I didn't give a date. You should know from history that a woman's right to vote is recent...About the last 100 years. If the date were 1750, it would be highly unlikely that this arbitrary woman either owned property or was accepted in a college much less to become a degreed teacher. And, who, or what body of people made it possible for a modern day woman to be able to achieve these goals?

If you guessed that women or the US made this possible, you'd be wrong again. I suggest you read up on Admiral deGrasse and the battle of Yorktown. If it hadn't been for the French at the right time and place, we would have been subject to British domination which would have severely crimped our quest for liberty and freedom.

So, we take the battle that erupted here on 9/11 to foreign lands and ask our allies around the world to help us. In the process this Moslem Army draws the battle lines, even though the Moslem Army is largely comprised of Syrians and Iranians who are foreign to the soil on which they fight. In the process of squelching the axis in Afghanistan and Iraq, organized pockets of resistance develop as we train the indigenous population as a police force (now 300,000 strong in Iraq according to Ted Kennedy). The battle lines are drawn, and we must prevail for the sake of the freedom and liberty we established in those lands and to minimize the possibility of another 9/11 in our own country.

The reader of this blog should already know that the women of these middle eastern countries were handed their freedom when we crushed the Taliban in Afghan and unseated Saddam in Iraq. The women of these lands can attend school today, vote, run for political office, all of which was denied them previously. Women can own property, appear in public without wearing a berka and not fear being executed for their cause in freedom. Do you remember the scene in the soccer field...Two women kneeling and simultaneously executed. It happened on a soccer field that was donated to the village by the American people.

Look to Japan, Germany, France, England, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Italy, Israel and the Baltic states to see democracies that function today with their own cultural flavors. This freedom and democracy resulted from WW2, largely paid for with American blood. Discounting the 6 million Jews that died at the hands of the Germans between 1941 and 1944, 405,399 Americans lost their lives, and 78,976 were declared Missing in Action. The cost of freedom is always high, but not nearly as high as it would be had we, the United States of America decided that it wasn't our fight. It was our fight. It is our fight and the political voice of the American citizen should be well informed as to the cost and the reason. Today these countries are independent because we stayed after the fight and helped them rebuild and establish governments and infrastructure.Democracy will minimize terrorism and open borders for trade. That is our experience.

So, how shall it be? Would you be willing to support the suffering that went on before we became involved? Would you be willing to put on that lifestyle in sympathy and support of those who were oppressed, and would become oppressed again if we immediately withdrew from the region? If there is still a question, you might try www.rawa.org Also, did you know that the 2nd highest Moslem population is now located in Dearborn Michigan? And did you know that once a Jihad has been declared, it is the obligation of every Moslem to destroy unbelievers?

The truth is, we are not done in either country. And, if we do not prevail we will leave the region in the same shape as North/South Korea......