Our president said we would put no boots (armed soldiers) on the ground, but a week later Gen. Martin Dempsey, who leads the U.S.A. military, said if American lives are in danger he would want to send soldiers to rescue them.
Adolf Hitler attacked the U.S.A.; the result is we became the most mighty military machine. We attacked Viet Nam but withdrew in defeat. We proclaimed victory over Iraq from a battleship; did we improve that country more than we hurt it?
Our president said we would put no boots (armed soldiers) on the ground, but a week later Gen. Martin Dempsey, who leads the U.S.A. military, said if American lives are in danger he would want to send soldiers to rescue them.
Military can blow up.
We need to grow up.
People need bread
More than bombs.
Rev. Alden Besse
Vineyard Haven
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Thanks to our "Military
Carla Cooper EdgartownThanks to our "Military Machine" you are still free to speak your mind, worship the God of your choice, peacefully assemble, and criticize the government. I shudder to think what the US and Europe would look like today without our "military Machine".
I may be mistaken but it was
Peter Robb Holliston and Oak BluffsI may be mistaken but it was the Japanese that attacked the USA, not the Germans. Hitler's forces crushed Europe and blitzed England. FDR only declared war after Pearl Harbor. Japan allied with Germany.
No fan of Obama but his hesitancy to get our forces involved yet again in the Islamic soup of the Middle East is well-founded.
We need a strong, well
William T. Langley Charlestown, RIWe need a strong, well equipped military for DEFENSE in a hostile world, not for nation building outside our borders. The fact that Obama is now taking cues from George W. Bush's playbook is incredibly ironic.
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