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Colin Powell once said something along the lines of " you break it/ you bought it". That's not how it happened in Iraq. In 2007, one year to the day after the death of Saddam , the US began to withdraw troops.
We'll never know how many ISIS terrorists were trained by US troops in Iraq. That War cost $1Trillion in deficit spending a year, for 6 years, when interest on debt and veterans costs are played forward.
There is this fantasy that the US can go back in, kick butt, chop-chop and put an end to ISIS once and for all.
If it were that simple, the US would have done it.
How do you fight a global ideological war without reinstating the draft and how do you pay for it?
How about it, armchair warriors.
I've come to this conclusion as well. It seems that ISIS itself may very well be the best thing to end barbarism in the Middle East. They're getting recruits now, but they're pissing off a lot of Muslims in the process. I'm sincerely hoping that countries like Egypt and Jordan will take more of an active role. When the US does it, it only breeds more extremists.
Eventually England gave up the gruesome public spectacles of hanging, drawing and quartering (and burning witches). Unfortunately, it took a long time. Hopefully this level of barbarity will speed up the process of turning away from it.
I understand it makes you feel better to paint someone in a box so that you can dismiss the arguments without having anything to actually argue with.
Sorry., I don't have to paint you in a box, you are doing just fine all on your own. There is no argument, that is the sad part. Like trying to have an intelligent debate with Michael Moore or Rosie Odonell, you cant. Tell me do you also believe 9/11 was an inside job?
He's dead. That is indeed what you are going to get. More dead sons and daughters.
We'd get more dead sons & daughters by sitting back and pretending that ISIS doesn't exist and isn't a threat. We've done that before. What about the sons and daughters on Flights 77, 175, 11, and 93? What about the songs and daughters killed in the Pentagon on 9/11? What about the sons & daughters who jumped to their deaths from the Twin Towers, or were killed when they collapsed? What about the sons & daughters killed in the Boston Bombing? What about the sons & daughters killed in the UK on 7/7, in Israel by Palestinian terrorists, in Mumbai when they had that bombing in 2008, in Spain when there were bombings?
What happened to the bravery of the Greatest Generation, who fought evil instead of tolerating it in the name of "multiculturalism"?
Obviously, we need to send in James Taylor to sing to them...maybe about jobs.
Don't give this administration any ideas.
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