Tens of thousands of dead and wounded American military men and women. Trillions of dollars spent and it’s still a mess over there. The Muslims are still fighting the Crusades against us. Nation building and trying to make them democracies has been a disaster. You can’t turn Muslims who subjugate women and practice a dictatorial and destructive religion that hates all outsiders, Christians and Jews into freedom loving people who want change. That’s the point. They don’t want to change. The western powers should of never got involved in creating the Middle East in the aftermath of WWl. It’s been one hundred years of chaos and destruction!
We should be a lot more careful where we send our troops because according to the neo-cons once we’re in a country we are never supposed to leave. How long should our troops stay in syria and afg? What is the criteria for victory? What is the strategy? Is there any strategy for success? In 10 or 20 years would the arguments for staying have changed? I’m tired of unending, unwinnable wars. We need to secure our own borders and fix our own bridges and highways.
Worst attack on US soil and thousands of lives lost. The culprit, not a nation but a terrorist group.
And, in 2016, Trump largely won by pledging to destroy ISIS and rebuilding our military because Obama had let ISIS become a national security threat.
Going to and remaining in Afghanistan never had a thing to do with globalism.