Sorry you can’t deal with the reality of it.
When we are engaged overseas, we uncover networks, names, people who are prone to participate.
Much of what we know about networks are derived from being on location, taking prisoners, and interrogation.
Those people and their networks don’t remain in the region. They travel overseas. They cause trouble.
That is the reality of it.
You can choose to stick your head in the sand because it doesn’t comport with your hair-brained isolationist mindwet.
I could care less.
If we don’t engage, China or Russia will. And when they do we’ll return to the 1960s when Russia colluded with terrorists in the region against the United States.
Not buying that eventuality even if you think I should.
> Sorry you can’t deal with the reality of it.
The reality is that you are operating on the kind of self-justifying circular logic I have previously seen primarily on the sales and lobbying teams of military contractors.