Dr. Sowell is right. Nobody wants war.
After 6 years of Obamafying our military, we have little to no chance of winning.
Making a pledge of “no boots on the ground” is idiotic for two reasons:
1. The most glaring is that we already have boots on the ground. Those SpecOps troops there all consider themselves to be real warriors.
2. And the second, probably the most important, is that, while I’m ok with giving the kurds & arabs a bit of a chance to fight their own ground war with our advisors and our close air support, not to send in a hard hitting shock and awe on the ground is to tell your own nation that you have zero desire to WIN!
And that the theme that the opposition should be pushing. Obama doesn’t care about winning, even though he’s willing to shed the blood of our best and brightest in a cause he doesn’t give a fig about.
As c’mon Sowell in the first half of last century we were at war in Europe. In the second half we were at war in the Pacific with war in Korea and then Vietnam. In this century we have started with war in the ME and Africa. Straighten out your glasses and see that it is government operators who want war not the people.
Presidents who want to be a war-time President without a formal Congressional declaration but with some work-around and a Congress answering to lobbyists. The will of the the people is manipulated - they are making atom bombs - they cut off heads - they violated UN resolutions - they shot at our planes in the no fly zone.
Forgitaboudit Sowell, we’re going to war whether we want it or son.
Many want war, in hopes it may:
alleviate boredom
end debts
acquire wealth or power
right imagined wrongs.