Do you suppose that America will win the East, as surely as the old West was won?

Who is the East?

And what is Win?

Please define these things to facilitate a more precise discussion.

Are we invading?

all out Jihad? We can’t even control the mountains around Kandahar so thin we’re stretched lol

Do you have any proof for these feelings you have?

What do you intend to do by using heavy weighted words like Nips? They are called the Japanese people.

Japan and America (and Japan/Canada) are friends today. I see no reason to believe in your speculation whatsoever, and I have lived in Japan for a bit as well and am versed in both cultures.

In today’s world, no one is winning against anyone else. Especially with the current global economy, everyone is focusing on their own problems, generally.

No, we should get the hell out of the east. We have no business there.

I would be more worried that, given the Chinese cultural reverence for male children, that China will eventually invade other countries for women. It will be like watching “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” on a global scale.

If i narrow the scope of “east” to Afghanistan and Iraq, i’m afraid the answer has to be that we have no choice but to win, as our new President has come to realize despite his pre-election campaign rhetoric.

Imagine what will happen to either country if we simply walk away from them.

I am not a racist, xenophobe or jingo, but left to their own resources, those countries would revert to the barbarous states in which they existed before they were invaded by a coalition of countries that had the gumption to start the wars, but lacked (for the most part) the conviction to finish them properly.

Now those countries stand aside and criticize those who remain as do many of my fellow citizens.

I am no fan of war. A young man from my small town was killed in Iraq last week and one can’t help but think about him and his family every time one sees a flag at half mast here in his honor. But, one must also consider the cause he sacrificed his life for.

It’s almost argumentative (not to mention populist) to claim there were no just causes to begin with (and i don’t mean wmd’s, but the humanitarian and security aspects of the war).

@avalmez

A multi-trillion 8-year war that has cost more than it would take to repair every bridge and road, give every American affordable healthcare, reform our defunct school system and so on and so forth?

We have lost that war a long time ago…..

You know the saying, “Outlaw guns, and only outlaws will own guns”? Well, don’t fight terrorism and only terrorists will be fighters. As our president realizes, not everything is local.

Fin

@avalmez

LoL

Not even the mighty Soviet Army was able to subdue Afghanistan. A country with a population of next to nothing and no infrastructure.

And who do you recall enabled the Afghan’s to defeat the mighty Soviets? Ever watched “Charlie Wilson’s War”? An entertaining way to actually learn one or more things about that war (eye candy ain’t bad either :)

No mas…pas

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@TheIowaCynic i agree with your sentiments however America does have business there, big bu$ine$$