Ambassador Murdered

[Cyber Wolf]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

I believe Romney would have used force to save American lifes. Our current administration is too apologetic to the Muslim world. An example is allowing the Iraqi government to decide whether or not we withdrew our forces. Seems like I remember we won that war

I'm sure you're aware that using force also sacrifices American lives. Basically, neither option would guarantee American lives are saved. Granted, soldiers are expected to lose their lives in conflict and granted, they would likely have had a better shot at surviving than the ambassador, but someone was gonna die. It was just be a matter of whose life is lost. Using force would mean the decision is made that the one ambassador was worth however many soldier lives the force would have taken during AND after the fact, assuming the use of force was successful.

Also, last I remember, Iraq is still its own country and we had turned sovereignty over to them back in 2004. That being the case, and as long as we're not contractually obliged by their government, such as it is, to remain, they have every right to tell us GTFO and we need to honor that if we're not at war with them. Gratitude has no currency value in this case, not if we can't keep the promises made way back when to rebuild the infrastructure.