(1) Young people are not really enthusiastic about fighting and paying for foreign wars.
(2) Young people think the military should be used to defend America, not as a tool for constantly meddling in the affairs of foreign countries.
(3) Young people believe that constant military and diplomatic interventions in the Middle East have sowed animosity toward the United States.
(4) Young people believe that Israel is more than capable of defending itself.
The American electorate is changing. Every two years there are more Millennial voters and fewer elderly voters. Young people don’t like American foreign policy. It will inevitably be changed through sheer demographics.
From the Des Moines Register posted about 6 hours ago:
“Paul responded by saying he supported the move to pursue the Sept. 11 terrorists.
He also clarified his stance on 9/11, saying the U.S. policies — not its people — were to blame for the attacks.
“They didn’t come here because you’re free and prosperous —they don’t go to Sweden and Switzerland,” Paul said. “…The 9/11 Commission said that the motivation was the fact that we were over there and we had been over there for a long time.””
He is not blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, he is rightly pointing out that because we choose to be involved in the ME and base our military over there we became a target for terrorism. It’s not a hard concept to understand, stick your nose in a hornets nest and you’ll get stung sooner or later. He has also said that he supported going after the terror groups that did this, just not the “nation building” that has caused us to be in Afghanistan for the past 10 years now.