The problem in this part of the world is without a functioning strong government, terrorist groups will take over and turn it into a training camp.
We either leave some troops there, or we have to kill everyone there. Killing everyone there isn’t a popular option.
“The problem in this part of the world is without a functioning strong government, terrorist groups will take over and turn it into a training camp.”
The Jihad is a crowd-funded, self-financing war. (Sure, there are big actors involved for their own purposes, but the soldiers can be recruited or self generated anywhere there are Muslims.) There are 1.5 billion Muslims and their culture and indoctrination tells them to go kill for their ideology. A percentage of them will do that. Any percentage of 1.5 billion will likely outnumber any nation’s army. The fact that they mostly come from the ground with no overarching country means they are always there among us and there is usually no way to know who they are until they decide to act. One takes his delivery truck and runs down a bunch of bikers or joggers. A Muslim doctor sterilizes his non Muslim patients without their knowledge.
A Muslim worker got angry with me because he could not understand the complexities of the job I was explaining. He growled, “You won’t like it when we take over. You will be my slave.” He was one of the “moderate” Muslims. Everybody liked him, but I listened to what he said and it was scary.