Charlie and America's War by: Orlando

Having just watched Charlie Wilson War’s I have a new found appreciation for “Dubya” and the Republican Party’s strategy for GWOT (Global War on Terror.) And with growing fervor I believe that we need to win the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. There has been multiple times where I have lost my faith in this war. Many times I have said, “Goodness, these people are completely ungrateful. We waste billions rebuilding schools, rebuilding their economy, and establishing there military. Let’s do the world a favor, ourselves the justice and leave these suicidal guys alone.” But wait, let us look at history. We have been in Afghanistan before and we have been in Iraq before, our strategy of not going all in has cost us more money and more war.
We all know the history of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and they asked us for help. When it was all over we were spending a billion dollars a year, in weapons and other supplies. The moment they won their freedom we cut all spending. It went from 1 billion dollars to 0 dollars, in a day. We ran out there, leaving them to be swallowed by Islamic-fundamentalism and anti-American zeal. When we stopped funding them half of the population was under the age of 14. What would have happened if we had continued fund them? What would have happened if we spent a billion dollars on building a liberal and secular school system? What would have happened if we established a purposeful infrastructure? What would have happened if we put money into a functioning government? Instead we left them alone, and now that 14 year old boy we liberated, we killed because there were no schools. Instead for education he went to a Madrossa, there he learned that America is the “great devil.” After that, he found a place in the mujahideen, he helped design the attack on the USS Cole, taught 14 other young men how to make IEDs, and he then messed with the wrong marine. Our failure to go all the way is now costing us a BILLION dollars a day, when could have spent a billion dollars a year. Make no mistake, if we give up on them now we will be in there again, and only God know how much money we will be spending then. Iraq is the same thing. The first Bushy went in and refused to go all the way. Where are we now? At this point liberals, democrats, and everyone else needs to get over why we went there. It does not matter anymore, we are now in there and it is time to win. The GWOT is the most pressing issue, and is why I am voting for McCain. I believe everything is tied to our winning the war on terror. If we win and both those countries are democratic, what then? Our nation’s prestige goes up, the Middle East is that much closer to peace, and as a result our economy, which is tied up in it, begins to pull out of this ebb. America Akbar!

(P.S. We are winning the war. Investment shows that we are. China is the number 1 investor in Iraq, and everything they touch lately becomes gold. Or at least the price of it, a.k.a. oil)