Posted on 06/21/2013 6:23:46 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
On U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war, where "both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line 'Allahu akbar' ... I say let Allah sort it out."
So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently the case, she nailed it.
Hours later, Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times, at length, echoed Palin: "Those who are urging the US to get more deeply involved in the Syrian conflict now are living in the past."
Four fundamental changes make it "no longer realistic, or even desirable, for the US to dominate" the Middle East as we did from the Suez crisis of 1956 through the Iraq invasion of 2003.
The four changes: the failures of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring and emerging U.S. energy independence.
Indeed, with $2 trillion sunk, 7,000 U.S. troops dead, 40,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans dead, and millions of refugees, what do we have to show for this vast human and material waste?
Can a country with an economy limping along, one that has run four consecutive deficits in excess of $1 trillion, afford another imperial adventure?
(Excerpt) Read more at m.townhall.com ...
yes, this ^^
There is lots of evil throughout the world and we just cannot fight it all. We have to be much more careful about which fights we will choose.
It has been one war after another; the first gulf war, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. We have to decide when to stop.
I was wondering if she wrote her own material.
And what did all of those wars have in common? The beneficiaries were in each case Islamo-Fascists.
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