The global polices need to reflect one thing. Period.
Will our ideology prevail, or will theirs?
You learned absolutely nothing from the U. S. withdrawing from Iraq too early. NOTHING!
Your take on it is that Iraq was a terrible mistake. Justify that!
Is Iraq a more stable reasoned place now or not? It isn’t threatening it’s neighbors. It isn’t killing it’s own citizens. The Kurds are relatively autonomous. Israel would be more safe too, it Owhackjob hadn’t pulled us out too prematurely, armed and financed the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and sadly ISIS.
As for trade with China, it is a separate issue. I’ve been railing on it since 1995. When I first did it, crickets. Today the results are in and folks have woken up to what I warned would be happening.
No, we shouldn’t have traded with China, not one cents worth.
We gutted our economy, financed a powerhouse enemy, and transferred our entire patent database to it. Everything being made in China, must first be reviewed by the Chinese. That means we reveal our patent information each step of the way.
The cost wasn’t our adventurism. The cost was gutting our economy. We should be bringing in two to three trillion more in taxation to the fed, if we had those 90 million out of work Americans working the in jobs we sent overseas.
Our national debt wouldn’t be nearly this high. Our Medicare and Social Security wouldn’t be under the negative pressure they are under today. We would have been able to finance the upgrades on our infrastructure.
We have done everything we could to undermine our economy. We bring in Mexican labor. We transfer all our jobs to China, India, and elsewhere. And since that isn’t enough, we replace our own workers with H1-B visa holders.
Our intervention in the Middle East was not the problem.
Our problem was destroying our own nation from within.
Our problem was voting in an enemy of the state, a Muslim Brotherhood fellow traveler.
That's on you. It was all a mistake. SH was a 'stabilizer' compared to the problems of today. He kept Iran in check, etc.
The ME will always have problems, and nation building there is only a dream; a nightmare.
It had nothing to do with taking troops out early, we could have left them there for 100 years and that wouldn't fix anything.
They are Islamic and that is the problem. That will always be the problem.
And that isn't even talking about the wasted blood and treasure. Nothing in return.