Additionally, One of the lessons of WWI that was fortunately learned in WWII is that if you fight, win, and leave, you will be back sooner than you think. We applied that to both Europe and Japan after WWII but a certain Obama admin ignored it in Iraq spawning ISIS and our current dilemma. Whether you think going into Iraq was right or wrong, we went in, fought, won, and subsequently left. That is the strategy you prescribe, but what did it leave? It left a spawning ground for future 911's.
I don't like to see any of our brave, fine volunteers getting killed overseas, but Americans do have short memories when it comes to history lessons.
Well, to also be honest, you don’t send anyone. Our soldiers are volunteers.
Taxpayers who are financing this adventure are certainly not volunteering their money to pay for it.
Yeah, its been 18 years already.
If we left spawning grounds for anything but fish, we did not use our might or do our job.
And of course they are volunteers. I have college classmates Desert Storm, Panama, Beirut, Iran II, The surge, Afghanistan, and family in Afghanistan, Iraq (twice) and Africa.
Since I graduated in ‘82, this means we are nearly 40 years into this bullshit and you are still spouting the same crap.
These men an women have spent more time in combat than their fathers and grandfathers in WWII.
And you spout the same crap.
End it. Let someone else deal with it. We have a strong air force, with big bombs. If they attack our families and homes...then they forfeit theirs.
“They” are not attacking us in any significant way—here or where our interests are.
We are in Central Asia for rare earth minerals. We are in Africa for oil and REMs. We went to Iraq to box in Iran and Russia.
You are falling for the MIC crap. You need to expand your critical thinking and ask who benefits from our being in that part of the world? Saudi Arabia and Israel. If we do not care about those places, we do not need them as allies. And since we have our own oil, and we can ship to China and Japan from our West Coast, there is no reasonable reason to stay there.
Tell me a good, solid, financially sound reason we need to be in any of those shitholes...and I will be all for it.
Six months after my Son In Law gets home, he gets notice that he is on the deployment list eight months later. It was “guaranteed” to him that it was going to be three years. Guess which Army is losing a combat vet with a needed specialty.
Its all bullshit. I don’t care about the people over there. Let them kill each other. When they attack us again, level their world. And carry through with it.