There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. ...Those new multipolar superpowers will not let the USA repose in its isolation.
George Washington
Israel has the strongest military there. Just how many American lives do you want to sacrifice trying to turn the Middle East into something other than the barbaric, backwards dump that it is?
Some of our people have been deployed 4 and 5 times, we have spent billions, and what do we have to show for it?