There is NOT ONE Muslim country that should matter to the United States. We have no interest in common with them. NONE. I don’t care what they’re fighting about - because they’re always fighting... Muslims are involved in every war in the world at this time.
Our job must be to stay the hell away from them and their wars.
We need to keep them fighting one another until either the “faith” bleeds to death, or its practitioners do, iow, make sure they keep stirred up against each other and never run out of ammo.
The director Sam Fuller has interesting comments (this is another one of those rambling ‘Civ sidebars) in one or more the ‘extras’ on the disk of “The Big Red One” — in real war, when an enemy surrendered, if he had bullets left, POW, but if none, then he gave up because he ran out of ammo, and, pllt.
That would be a valid point, if their wars stayed at home, but they don’t. A couple of years ago I looked up flight times, and found (as I Recall) it’s 14 hours from Kabul to Knoxville. This is a very small interconnected world, and getting more so all the time.