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So Osama and the Taliban weren’t based in Afghanistan? So Saddam Hussein didn’t violate the Desert Storm peace treaty hundreds of times and try to kill President George H.W. Bush? 9/11 didn’t happen? Please explain which “useless war” you’re referring to. And which enemy holds the deed and is going to just walk in and take over? Read this:

“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln, Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838)

"So Saddam Hussein didn’t violate the Desert Storm peace treaty hundreds of times and try to kill President George H.W. Bush?"

Bush's daddy should have taken out Saddam Hussein the in the first Gulf War. We actually had a principled leg to stand on back then -- we were defending the concept of national sovereignty (of Kuwait).

But we had absolutely no sane reason to attack Iraq in 2001 -- especially immediately after 9/11, when we should have been concerned real direct threats to us which Iraq was not.

So Osama and the Taliban weren’t based in Afghanistan?

You never start a war until you know what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it -- eight years later, we're still trying to figure out both of those things in Afghanistan. That's insane.

And which enemy holds the deed and is going to just walk in and take over?

China and Russia are holding most of our enormous debt. Saudis are also holding some of it. Any of those sound like "America's friends" to you?