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Originally Posted by unregistered
is it not one of the responsibilities of leadership to also do that which is necessary and correct, even and also when an ignorant/uninformed/misinformed populace does not 'support' such ?
but such did not prevail in Vietnam, and the same 'anti' group is trying again
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I agree, sometimes this is necessary(such as WWII), but such an action requires a strong and qualified leader. I can't see how you can compare FDR to bush. FDR did what he did because he knew what he was doing. Theres a reason he was elected into office four times. Bush wasn't even elected once.
Also, it's not fair to compare WWII to Iraq. In WWII, we had allies and world support. Also, at the time Germany posed an immediate threat to our national security. The Iraq situation has none of that. I agree that Saddam being out of power is good, but first we should have taken care of the terrorism problem. Instead we gave the terrorists ammunition to recruit more followers.
"Before we went into Iraq, there were no terrorists there. Now it's got all of them"
-- John Stewart