Libya

I have some strange opinions about war. Many people don't understand them. I believe a lot of this is because I spent 10 years as a soldier in the United States Army. So today I'm going to talk about my opinion on what we are doing starting another war with yet another middle eastern country.

First off, I believe this has been long coming. Why is wasn't done over 20 years ago when Muammar Gaddafi admitted to involvement in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 I don't know? I guess it was for the same reason we didn't take out Osama Bin Ladin after the first attack on the World Trade center in 1991, or after he attacked the embassies in Africa, or even after he bombed the USS Cole.

Muammar Gaddafi is basically the same as Saddam Hussian was to his people. He is a tyrant who controls his people by fear with very few individuals who actually support his outrageous beliefs. Now, on a side note, I have many thoughts on the taking out of Saddam, but I believe this should be saved for another time.

Now on to my second point. Obama, only after pressure from other countries, has joined in on an allied forces air attack against Libya. He has stated though, that no ground troops from the United States will be moved there to perform a ground assault. First off, why did he cave under the pressure if he truly doesn't believe in this assault? Secondly, why doesn't he prepare our troops for the possibility of another ground war?

I am very much angered by this entire situation we have been subjected to. I am angered, not because the United States is involved in another war, but because we have been involved in this war with uncertainty.

Now on to my third point, and honestly, this is the reason that I started writing this blog post today in the first place, is why do we always find excuses for why our leaders bring us into these wars. The American people criticized George H.W. Bush for leading us into war with Iraq because of a basically unknown country, Kuwait. Why were we getting involved? The answer was to help out a country in need! Then the American people criticized George W. Bush for again bringing us to war against the same man his daddy did. So many things were said about him. He was trying to finish the job to make his father proud. He was doing it because of oil, which everyone believed is also why his father did it. Nobody thought to look at it at the viewpoint of the people of Iraq needed our help because they had no leadership guiding them in the right direction against this horrible man.

So now we finally get to Obama. What is the American's people excuse for him going to be? Personally, I like he's doing it because he wants to prove to the American people that he's not Muslim. I know that is going to come up quite a bit. Then there is going to be he felt the pressure from other countries in the United Nations. I think that is a little more believable. What do you think some of the excuses are going to be?

I personally don't believe we should be getting our hands dirty with another war. I do believe though that if there is somebody who is calling for our help we will give it to them. No I do not believe that we are the world police, but I do believe we have been a strong nation for so long because we are built on democracy. If the majority of the people of a country want this for their country too, but are unable to do it for themselves why can't we help them out? Now I do also believe that the Libyan rebels are doing pretty well on their own. Just last night when one of our own F-15s went down and the pilots had to eject it was the Libyan rebels who rescued one of the men and ensured that he was returned to the Americans safely.

On that note do they really need our help? And if they do let's go in there and give Gaddafi hell. Let's show them what the 82nd, 101st, all our Ranger Battalions, Special Forces Groups, and Delta Force is for. Give him hell like Audie Murphy and SGT York. Bring on the pain and let my infantrymen kick on their asses! HUA!