Another comment by that commentator of commentators, Caleb.
How many of you play video games? Starcraft anyone? How many of you have played a game or two online? How many of you have been trounced by a cocky little 8 year old who held you under the boot of his massive but inferior zerg forces while he cackled evilly? If you have you should have learned this important lesson. Extremely powerful troops, even well trained troops do not win wars. Generals do. Now we have men weaned on the suffering death of past massive conflicts to guide us. To make sure that every American life is met with maximum yield, and that our sacrifice will not be, militarily, in vain. What happens when You get to be general by pointing lasers at people on training fields during frequent exercises, and dropping virtual bombs from high tech simulators? Do we want the 10 year old video tyrant of today to be running our armed forces tomorrow without the benefit of witnessing the terror of war first hand?
A military is like a car in Alabama. You leave it up on blocks too long and it falls apart. We must have experienced officers. It is our duty as Americans to stomp petty countries beneath our boot in order to preserve our military might, and necessary discipline.
Well, maybe I should tone that down a bit. This is why we police the world. This is why we still have the power to help those in need. In short, we have to fight someone. why not an evil dictator. Would you rather we invaded Canada. I know a few Canadians who would.
I'm not sure that giving our future Generals a taste of warfare is a good reason to invade Iraq, but I do see the logic in it. It goes along with the logic that each generation must experience war in order to hate it.
On the other hand, they do make everybody read "All Quiet on the Western Front" in high school.
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