I have a question, but it begins with another question.
Has anyone come up with the total $$ cost to the “Allies” (basically, “the West” plus the Saudis and their allies) of all this promotion of violence / warfare in the ME?
Obviously the ME is well capable of generating its own violence without outside help, but the recent history is clearly an extreme case of outside forces being the major player.
As a side note, I think the human cost should be laid more emphatically at Hillary’s feet. Perhaps Trump could say: “Mrs. Clinton, a willing leader of this corrupt system, not only attacks me for things I did not do, but is herself at least partially responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East, including the Americans at Benghazi. Now I readily admit I am not perfect, and where wrong, I have apologized. But, in the end, I build things, employ many thousands, and have helped give a voice to 10 of millions of good, decent, hardworking Americans. YOU, Ma’am, are a plague of death and destruction. I’ll take any fair comparison, any day of the week.”
The costs. Well, we know the SoS office under Hillary cannot account for 6 billion dollars. No doubt that was weapons and training for the Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and ISIS terrorists hired to overthrow Assad and Kaddahfi. And now that actions(s) has spilled over into the entire region and 2 million people have died with no war declared or US troops used! Hillary has proven the US can do more destruction using terrorism than troops! Just think what she will do internally to this country once she is president! Unleash terrorists in every small town and large city and watch the place burn!. She’s a killer, a murderer, and a terrorist. Costs? She will cost us what is left of our freedoms, our way of life and our middle class will dissolved just like it did in Syria.