But we’re not doing that.
We are taking sides.
Even worse we are asking our military persons to fight people who were previously armed and trained by our military.
This is nothing short of INSANE and criminal to our young people who join the military.
Look, we should have a strong military. But we should not be arming and training Muslims of any persuasion whatsoever nor any Muslim government. Much less going in there to build school, roads, infrastructure etc in the INSANE belief that they will then like us and not want to kill us (The Bush/Harf doctrine).
How many times has that worked?
“....they will then like us and not want to kill us (The Bush/Harf doctrine).”
Putting president Bush and Harf in the same sentence is insulting. I’m sure that will be the majority opinion in our military.
In your #42:
“Christians have been living in this dangerous part of the world among sectarian muslim warfare for centuries. They should know the score by now. They should defend themselves a la Israel. Arm up to the teeth and take up defensive positions . I wouldn’t mind helping them do that.”
Simplistic, to say the least. How can Christians or any other minority have their own country “a la Israel?” Amazing.
If we don’t defend the Christians by killing the Islamists main force in the ME, more defenseless christians will be slaughtered. Our regime is allowing another holocaust. Years later, the handwringing about what we should have done will be debated.
“None of our business” doesn’t work in today’s world. The Islamists are inside the gates because oceans are hurdles no more.
The old isolationism is the modern ducking the responsibility of defending the American people.