As to Iraq and Afghanistan, in our quest to fight smart we might ask ourselves why do we have boots on the ground in either place? A misplaced fear of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? A misplaced notion that occupying Afghanistan will somehow make us safe from 19 fanatics with box cutters? Perhaps we should reevaluate what we are trying to accomplish in the war on terror. Maybe we should just bomb the hell out of them, that seem to work in Libya. Putting boots on the ground and pouring blood and treasure into the Sands of Iraq and Afghanistan are sequelae to 9/11 but how do they advances the war on terror, they merely impoverish us and make our citizens even more resistant to combat. The result? A caliphate from the border of China to the Atlantic shores of Africa and Iran stronger than ever and soon to have the bomb. For this you want to put more boots on the ground?
Have we actually won the war in Iraq? A lot of people do not think so. Many of them live in Iran.
Whatever your views on these specific engagements, you still have not demonstrated a nexus between our security and a growing population.
