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“Then why stay in?”

We, unfortunately, have created a lot of commitments to countries all over. The main one being used in the media right now is Israel. Everyone is so ready for us to back out and let all the freeloaders fend for themselves. This will create havoc and panic as they can’t. Then someone will emerge with a plan to save them like Hitler and Mussolini and all the czars of Russia like Lenin and Stalin, and areas that seem to be in good shape like China, Japan, and our, so called, western allies. But all, in their great successes, have failed miserably. World War II was the result of this. Germany and Italy tried to expand their borders to profit. Japan in the Pacific did the same. But they underestimated the allies that included the US, or was the US, and they were decimated and lowered to a third world country as we define it today.

But that war had to be fought because we were brought into it and were part of causing it. Pulling out now, will cause another one. Over a million US military members, alone, were killed or wounded in WW II. Korea tallied thirty-five plus thousand deaths. And the count continues when we were forced to go into such places since like, The Lebanon Crisis in 1958, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961 and 62, the Dominican Republic in 1965, the US Liberty incident in 1967, Iran and El Salvador in 1980, Beirut in 1982, Granada in 1982, Libya bombing in 1986, Persian Gulf escorts in 1987, Invasion of Panama in 1989, the Gulf War, Haiti, Columbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Inherent Resolve, Yemen…….and this is not all the list. And these all had the same three facts, they were not on our soil, they put US citizens in peril, and they caused the deaths of US military members. So, as you can see, we can’t pull out. If we do, all these things can happen again. And most probably will. Our species is just smart enough to recognize the problem, but not enough to stop it.

rwood