Max Boot, Los Angeles, column: ‘Pacific pivot’ mustn’t take focus off Mideast
July 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm in Grand Forks Herald
By all means, increase our air and naval assets in Asia, but leave the Army and the Marines free to concentrate on the area where they have been so heavily engaged in the last decade and are likely to remain engaged for years to come. Continue Reading
As the author so aptly points out, our assets have been tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan for over a decade. As the parent of a service member I can tell you, if you are going to get my son killed, it damned well better be for something other than saving face. I am not willing to to have my son give the ultimate sacrifice in an unwinnable war whose outcome is already determined.
Six months to a year after we leave both Iraq and Afghanistan it will be as if we were never there. We tried; we failed.
How could Nixon sleep at night knowing the men and women who died in Vietnam under his watch did so for no reason? Did we prevent Vietnam from going communist? More importantly, did the world come to an end because it did?
Those last thousands died for no appreciable gain. Any servicemember who dies in Afghanistan or Iraq today will also die for no measurable gain.
We need out. Now
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