Honestly, all the blame belongs on GOP Congresses which had a Constitutional obligation to shut down Obama’s illegal wars, and instead collaborated with him.
We should never have destroyed Libya.
We should not be destroying Syria.
We should not have overthrown the legitimate government of Ukraine.
We should not have wrecked Honduras to enable a despotism there.
We should not still be in Afghanistan 14 years later.
We should not still be in Iraq 13 years later.
In less than five years we will have young men (and, abominably, women) who will be fighting in wars in those two countries that started before they were born.
We should not still be in Germany and Japan 70 years later, and Korea 60 years later.
The defense of Germany is a German problem.
The defense of Japan is a Japanese problem.
The defense of South Korea is a South Korean problem.
The defense of Saudi Arabia is a Saudi problem. Those jerks deserve to all get beheaded anyway. The 28 pages show that we should have invaded and conquered them, not Afghanistan.
We should not be pledging nuclear defense of minor statelets on the borders of Russia by including them in NATO when we explicitly promised not to do just that.
The above facts are a damning and irrefutable indictment of post-Cold War US foreign policy.
None of these interventions have had a positive effect on US national security. All of them have had dramatically negative effects on our national fiscal position. There is no justification for the blood of a single American soldier to be spilled in defense of any nation other than the United States of America.
The US government needs to put the interests of Americans first, that is its lawful and moral duty and obligation. The rest of the world is not its responsibility and for the most part is none of our damn business. We have way too much to clean up here at home before telling anyone else what to do.
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