[grania]

I'm an isolationist. I believe in a strong military, with the caveat that it should be used to protect and defend the US and to prevent horrors such as what happened to the Yazidis and other minorities that would better be served by a Kurdish nation and a strong Syria.

When the mapmakers redrew the Mideast map after WW1, they created Saudi Arabia and didn't give the Kurds a nation. The Balfour decision in 1917 was an English diplomat saying Israel should have a nation in the Mideast. All that pretty much mucked up the Mideast. It was supposed to be a solution to end all wars, instead it demonstrated that WWI never should've happened.

The Yazidis and others were doing fine until we and our allies opted for regime change initiatives, which destabilized nations and removed the heavy hands that kept the maniacs in check. Which nations benefit? Not us.

[Kazan]

The horrors that Yazidas suffered was solely because Obama left Iraq too early. Mosul was overrun by ISIS and Christians were slaughtered for the same reason. ISIS became a threat to national security for the same reason and we had to go back destroy them.

Something similar would happen if Afghanistan if we pulled out altogether.