Paul support doesn’t need spam when 70% of voters agree that our troops should not be dying in nation building or being street cop in a 1000 year religious civil war. When we got Saddam and they got the purple finger vote, our job was finished.
“When we got Saddam and they got the purple finger vote, our job was finished.”
That is a very dangerous and short-sighted idea. If we leave Iraq without stabilizing it as an enemy of terrorism, we leave ourselves wide open to a huge increase in terrorism.
Iran could just walk in and take it over.
Our enemies are fighting us on many fronts, the largest one being Iraq.
If we leave, we not only send a message about our willingness to defend ourselves and our interests. Kind of like the message we sent after Somalia, and after Lebanon. It will embolden our enemies, and give them a base from which to attack us.
And, like before the war, Iraq will once again put its WMD factories on-line.
If they do that, and we find out about it... how can we ever go back to put them out of business again, after we blew it the first time?
How can we ever prosecute another war, no matter how in-your-face the evidence of threats may be?
The job of stopping radical islam will never be finished if we cover our heads in the sand. Iraq was a big problem, Afghanistan was a big problem, Iran IS a Bigger problem. The interference by Iran by importing terrorism and intimidation is a bigger problem than Sunni, Shia, Kurd differences put together. leaving will only open the door so Iran can help themselves. Paul ought to recognize the problems with illegal immigration and see a parallel, but he is immersed in self value that few others see.
If we pull out we will not comprehend what dying will be.
If we can’t stand up for freedom and democratic society in a country that has the desire and just needs the means, we have no business promoting our own democracy. There is a lot of value involved and retreating cheapens the value of defending the right thing.