I think we've missed the point

In the whole big scheme of things we have missed the entire point in Iraq. Number one, over 900 troopers have died in Iraq in just over a year. People say to compare this occupation to Vietnam is irresponsible and wrong. I for one agree. There are way more people dead in Iraq now than during the first year of Vietnam. If you count the first year of Vietnam, officialy beginning in 1957, there was only one person killed. Now if you wait a little it takes until 1965 for the United States to build up the troop levels of today in Iraq. Now after 8 years the troopstrength is 140000 or approximatly what we have in Iraq now. After 8 years the deathtoll in Vietnam was just over 2200 men. We are near 1000 in the first year of Iraq. In 8 years how many US dead will there be? Who knows. We are walking a tightrope there. People say that they would rather be fighting over there than over here. Well so would I but realy people, there have only been two incidences of foreign terrorism on our soil in the history of the United States! I think we are doing pretty good considering that the rest of the world is a punching bag for terrorists. Europe during the 70's and 80's was raped by terrorists in bombings on airplanes and in airports hijackings on ships etc. etc. etc. What did Europe do? Well for one thing they increased internal security. Been to a foreign airport lately? They had troops in airports for decades before we finally thought it up. Hear about terrorism in China? Hmmmmmm. Maybe its because their internal security is so damn tight. Now I certainly don't advocate the lengths that China has went to but here in the US this bullshit of being proactive against the terrorists is like trying to crush a fly with a hammer. You can't go after targets like that with M1A1 Abrams tanks. If we want real security, we need to come back home and actually defend the homeland. Piss on the Iraqis. If they wanted their freedom so fuckin bad maybe they would have fought for it like our forefathers did. Freedom easily won is freedom easily lost. Yes Saddam used to use blowtorches and hammers on his people but hell thats all he had. We are dropping 500 pounders on them guys. Who cares how you kill them beit poison or hatchets or an AH-64 Apache. The point of the whole thing is we are spending money to do what Saddam did for free all these years. We should be spending this money and effort securing the homeland. If we keep the shipping lanes open with the Navy and protect the homeland with the Army then the rest will take care of itself.