Sorry, but you are not the sole owner of the term “conservative.”
I agree on borders not being sealed, but no one has effectively gotten any sealing other than Duncan Hunter, who no one wanted to support in 2008.
As for fighting terrorists, we ignored and poo pooed them for three decades while they continued attacking us and got September 11, 2001 in return.
And, it isn’t “reshaping the middle east to our liking,” but giving them the chance and security to esxcape the oppressive arm of the Jihadists and choose a free path for themselves.
Funny thing is, you Pauliacs keep crying about not having any of our people where they currently are by agreement with those countries, yet everytime such a policy has been followed, we end up attacked.
Anybody with an ounce of brains knows that should you succeed and pull everybody back, not only are weleaving our flanks unguarded, the left will begin dismantling our Military, as they did after WW1 and after we saw through the Clinton years.
How will that “prepare for what we have to do HERE.”
Oh yes, your shouting neither impresses me nor intimidates me. Sometimes, I wonder what some of you learned in the Military.
I may not own the copyright on the term, but I sure know what the word “conservative” means... and nation-building or foreign adventures are not included in the definition.
Hunter, Tancredo, Ron Paul, all talked about secure borders. The RNC and the Bushites ran screaming from the idea. And too many bush-bots here ALSO poo-poohed the notion of securing our borders.
The ONLY way to get the jihadi’s attention is to inform their sponsors, Saudi Arabia, et al, that the next terrorist attack anywhere in the world will result in the immediate complete and total destruction of Mecca. Then follow through. City by “holy” city. Put the onus on the sponsors to stop it or be vaporized. There is no other way I can think of that would have the ghost of a possibility of working.
The people in the mid east have the society and government THEY WANT. If they dislike it, it is THEIR job to do and THEIR blood to spill to get it done, NOT OURS. WE have shed way too much blood for too many “causes” and gotten nothing but shafted in return, by the very people we “saved.” NO MORE. Let these people shed their OWN blood instead of OURS.
With (no) respect to your claim that we get attacked whenever we don’t maintain an occupation force overseas, that just won’t wash. If you think it will, please provide cites and links.
If we pull our troops home, where they belong, while maintaining a forward naval presence together with the Maritime Pre-positioning Squadrons, we don’t NEED the occupation troops abroad AND we can project force where ever it might be needed. Then, if an army is needed they can deploy and have adequate stocks of equipment and munitions available til the resupply line is set up.
There is no excuse, whatsoever, for spilling OUR blood for others unwilling to spend their own. Never has been, for that matter. And on top of that, after we’ve spent our blood and our childrens’ blood, we are asked to also PAY THE BILLS. How many scores of billions did we pay to rebuild Iraq? When we were told that their oil monies would cover it? How many billions? No, that is NOT permissible under our Constitution and it does NOTHING to keep us one iota safer.
And what I learned in the Marine Corps was that I owe allegiance to the Constitution and the American People, that I need to respect and see the Constitution obeyed by government, that what is not specifically allowed for government to do, is PROHIBITED to it. What did YOU learn, presuming you served?