We haven’t gained much from our wars of the last 40-odd years. Lots of dead Americans, plenty of wore-out equipment, and, big bills for the American taxpayer. Economic gains? Political gains? Geo-political gains? Not much. We today are leaving Afghanistan and Iraq and Al-Qaida and Company are simply rushing back in as we do.
Just saying. What exactly do we have to show for the last several decades of sending Americans to armed conflict?
I think we’d have a lot more live Americans, our nation’s finest, and a lot more real security if we spent half the effort we put toward remaking the world into securing our borders.