Quote Originally Posted by banginjimmy
Here is the problem the military faces no matter who is in office. We should be nice to the people that hate us cause we dont want to make enemies out of enemies. End this PC shit and end the war. Send 4 or 5 full divisions into Pakistan and wipe out anyone that fires a shot at them. It wont take long at all before you find someone that will tell you exactly what you want to know.
While this may sound like a good strategy, it will never work for one reason.

You are only thinking of Pakistan. You aren't thinking globally. Yes we are the largest super power on the planet but we are not above every other power. If we go into Pakistan stomping around, shooting whoever does this and that, the ENTIRE world will turn on us. Once that happens, we are fucked.

We are in the midst of an economic crisis now. We cannot afford to piss anyone off, especially our somewhat allies, such as China and Japan, who combined hold about %45 of our debt. Not to mention India who is the largest Democracy in the world at this time. So going in guns blazing will do nothing but turn the world even further against us and undo what Obama has done (see below)

Bush was not the worst president in the United States by far, but he was pretty shitty on the grand scale of things. His personal vendetta against Saddam was responsible for much of the hatred of Americans worldwide and in their eyes, showed America as what they always thought it was, Cowboys. We are still recovering from Bush's bullshit and will be for years to come. The Iraq war was bullshit, a waste of resources and lives. It will go down in history as a failed war simply for that reason alone. There was no need for it. We pulled troops out of Afghanistan to go to Iraq and now are having to deal with what we should have dealt with back then, wasting more American lives and money.

Now for Obama. Obama is good for the country, in the worlds eyes, simply because he is black. That is not the only reason he is good for the country, he is charasmatic, level headed, a good speaker and he is alot more real world person than Bush ever was. Bush was an idiot. He mispronounced words, used them in sentences incorrectly and generally made an ass out of himself....like hugging the Queen. Just sheer stupidity. He embodied every other countries idea of what an American is...ignorant, flippant, deserving, unclassed and apathetic to anything other than themselves. That's pretty much Bush.

But what most of the world sees when Obama gets on stage, is that he's black. So in their eyes, we as a country have elected a black president and maybe...just maybe, we are coming out of the caveman days. Add to that the fact that he's pretty much the exact opposite of Bush, and you have countries warming up to us now. They want to impress Obama. You have countries sending more troops to Afghanistan now simply bcause Obama is. They don't have to....but they are, because of Obama. The exception is Germany, who is waiting til January. but even they are under pressure from allies now that Obama has announced the 30,000 troop surge.

So I voted 4. Bush wasn't the worst, but he damm sure wasn't the greatest.