If you think the rules of engagement are going to change in today’s US, you are not paying attention. They were crappy under Bush, the nation-builder, too.
The only way to stop the horror in the Middle East is to kill every single Muslim, and that is not going to happen.
As long as the US has troops in Muslim countries, they will continue to be part of a perpetual campaign that should be called Operation Provide Targets. Meanwhile, the Muslim invasion of the US (started by Clinton and accelerated by Bush and Obama) continues. Islam here is the threat to our safety and security.
Well then, better hide under your bed or something. War’s coming. The late Reagan wasn’t joking when he said that “(f)reedom is just one generation away from extinction”, with the characteristics of the generation that would lose said freedom strongly implied.
What happened when we pulled out of Iraq? Oh yes, “ISIS”. So running away turned out to be worse.
So was Washington wrong when he said what would happen when the USA projected weakness? In the same speech, he also said the USA has to be “at all times ready for war”.
BTW, I did not mention Bush.
And why are you doing this on a thread that has nothing to do with this subject?