Our cemeteries are filled to the brim with the bodies of Americans who gave their lives to protect many of these ungrateful bastards who now call us ‘bully’. I agree...bring them home, and let them kill each other...
Same concept as don’t throw a rock at a hornet’s nest. We should have had an openly stated policy years ago that we would never make a first strike on anyone, but would respond with unimaginable force if provoked.
It is in one respect why I have some admiration of the Russians and the Chinese for that matter. From a military standpoint everyone pretty much thinks that if they mess with them they will be slapped back with overwhelming force.
We ALMOST did that in Afghanistan, but with the job half done we got fixated on Iraq and lost the momentum, making ourselves look like fools in the process.