Kasz216 on 23 December 2008
| akuma587 said: I just take a very negative attitude towards our involvement in the Middle East because I can think of almost nothing in terms of ways it has benefited America OR the Middle East in an unequivocally positive way. Its essentially an economic sinkhole for America. We can pour as much money as we want into the Middle East, but its like trying to dig a hole to China. You simply aren't going to accomplish anything. |
Outside of Captain Mc Screwup we haven't really put that much money into the middle east.
I mean the rest of our wars were basically won pretty easy because we just kicked ass until we got what we wanted then went home.
If anything it was probably positives since it let us test equipment in real combat situations.
I think the first Iraqi war actually found a couple flaws in our military equipment we didn't know about. Something about how the Iraqis could screw up our missle guidence, and we found out that the helicopters we purchased were really crappy and I think caused more deaths then enemy soldiers did.
Even the Iraqi war has shown great benefits for Iraq in general. It just was a hell of a lot rockier then it should of been.
