Friend you are wrong about me, and likely about the world. There is a very good chance that if we just came home and quit meddling, that everybody would leave us in peace. Nobody wants to attack the big sleeping giant, especially if its minding its own business. Paul isn’t going to disband the military, far from it.
If we come home and they attack us, we can crush them again.
But if we don’t come home, we will be engaged in a state of perpetual war like we are now, 22 years and counting. And its costing us trillions we can’t afford. The US is a lot more likely to die in a fiscal crisis than because some guys in Iran hate us. Fiscal disasters are how most empires end.
There’s a reason why Paul gets the overwhelming support of the armed services, with more contributions from them than all other candidates combined, including Obama. They understand that what we are doing over there is worse than useless. And they also took an oath to protect the constitution, and they recognize that Paul is the only one who is going to take that oath seriously.
I do not believe in “nation building”, but this is what depresses me: You and others actually believe that the world will allow us to settle in our little cocoon if we only come home. That’s scary thinking, and ignores the reality of the 20th century’s people control movements and their ensuing mass exterminations, and also the relentless evil of radical Islam. You people don’t even accept that Israel, despite its faults, is our intelligence gathering bulwark in the region. **Sigh** Bob
Islamic fundamentalism is on a worldwide jihad in almost every region of the world, not just against us. You have to be extremely ignorant of world events to not know that. Islamic fundamentalism must be confronted on ALL fronts using ALL means necessary.