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This is no laughing matter, I am sorry you feel the need to make light of the situation for a rep or two when people are dying and soon it may be our own dying.
Newsflash! Our own people are already dying from lack of proper medical treatment due to lack of insurance. Medicare is next on the chopping block.
In case you have missed the news for the past two years, we are broke!
Nations before us did the same in Afghanistan.
The ME nations have existed since the beginning of time while other nations came and went in and out of power.
Shouldn't that tell you something ?
I get it, believe me. My mind is telling me one thing and my heart another. The US tried minding our own business at one time and that didn't work either so, it seems there is always going to be wars we just need to do better at choosing the ones we want to fight. It seems to me that we have been a complete failure at this since WWII.
Prevent what. Gadaffi's bombing of civilians? A no fly zone like we had over Iraq to prevent the slaughter of the Kurds.
What of US bombing of civilians in Pakistan, are you so adamant about the slaughter of innocent Paki's?
What about the people (democratic dissidents) who were boiled alive by Karimov who received over 500 million in US foreign aid? What about the slaughter of those folks, do you not mind they were granted a red carpet tour of the White House?
Newsflash! Our own people are already dying from lack of proper medical treatment due to lack of insurance. Medicare is next on the chopping block.
In case you have missed the news for the past two years, we are broke!
You didn't worry about that when the stimulus, extended unemployment, obamacare was being touted all about. So why worry now ?
We have amassed more debt in 2 years than, than,....
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