This kind of ignorance has been purposefully created by American education systems, in order to better manipulate the sheep and the idiots towards an anti-patriot and pro-Democrat message.

It’s no accident that “the West” has troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. What’s really going on here is a bracketing of Iran. Troops and bases on the western and eastern borders present a problem for Iran. We (the West) have done so deliberately.

Iran is interventionist to the point of insanity. They seek to destabilize, via terror and blood and fear, any country within their sphere of influence. (I can immediately see the leftist argument rise up about our anti-Communist interventionist policies in the 50’s and 60’s, and I will automatically grant the worthiness of such debate… but I won’t automatically grant that we were worse or even equivalent. But the debate is worthy because we DID it too. Regardless, Iran is today’s current evil interventionist and destabilizer via terror, blood, murder, fear.)

Almost everyone allows that intervention in Afghanistan was honorable and justified. You’d have to be a committed anti-war zealot, against ALL war, to be against it.

Iraq is a much more dubious proposition. Saddam was a megalomaniac wild-card. Easily taken down. If you see it as I see it: that one goal was to bracket Iran and apply a LOT of pressure on Iran, then the decision to attack Iraq was also quite easy. Iran is a much tougher nut to crack and has the direct backing of China, and those facts would make direct invasion/occupation almost impossible. Even those who believe that the USA will attack Iran before Bush’s term expires know that any such attack would be only a spoiling raid, to set them back on their geopolitical objectives. (We never attacked Russia either remember, and we won’t attack China now.)

But we also have the goals in Iraq and Afghanistan of creating stable non-totalitarian states, hopefully with some nascent form of democracy or representative government in control. Stable states that participate rather than serve as terrorist states or as voids within which bloody barbarism rules. I’d still contrast our goals against the goals of Iran, and see us on the side of the angels rather than the devils.

This is so terrific. I think one of the problems we have today (in the US) is having allowed the leftists who write textbooks and teach school to destroy our heroes. We need heroes - even when as adults we find that they weren’t quite the heroes we thought they were. You can’t achieve an ideal without an ideal as a goal. Remove kids’ ideals - their heroes - and you don’t leave them much to shoot for.

I had a link … if I could find it again…

Here:
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/029882.html

Money quote:

“Teachers received materials as well. Unlike the children, who were happy to get the gifts without asking who they come from, the teachers wanted to know who to thank. They could barely believe their ears when Starz told them.

“They said it’s almost too much to imagine,” Starz said. “All the teachers wanted a copy of Sgt. Stokely’s picture and the foundation’s name so they could frame it and put it up in their school. They say it’s something the Quran teaches - the forgiveness of your enemies. But it’s so hard to do … that it’s never actually seen.” “

http://wolfhowling.blogspot.com/2008/04/taheri-on-basra.html

Which of course raises the question: why do we keep electing children to this government?