He’s right. We are wasting time and treasure. What is the end game? What is victory?
It’s never going to stop. Every paycheck set aside 50 bucks to fight Islamic terrorism, for the rest of your life, as every other American will do. It is like insurance, or a 401 K plan to preserve a peaceful future or just plain taxes. I hate it, but it was the same in the Cold War.
Do I want to fight wars forever?
Why do we have 1000 FBI cases that are chasing Islamic terrorists in all 50 states? When is that over? What is that cost? What is the endgame? Orlando? Nice France? Barcelona? 9/11?
You can stay home and wait for them to come...and they will come because they said they are going to come. If 99% of Islam is peaceful, it is irrelevant, since the 1% has shown themselves to be more than capable of committing acts of horrendous violence. Yet we see that large portions of the Muslim world believe in Sharia, and in the punishment of death for leaving their faith or insulting the Prophet. We are running a footrace while holding a bottle of nitroglycerin.
When they struck the WTC in 1993, they said they would come back and knock it down, and you know what - they did exactly that. In 1998 Osama Bin Laden issued the fatwa that every Muslim on Earth has an Islamic duty to kill Americans, yet we did nothing. Clinton let him escape.
Osama Bin Laden has also said that Muslims have a religious duty to use nuclear weapons against America. Every expert has said it is not a question of “If”, it is a question of “when”. They will get nukes, there are too many out there, and 100 pounds of plutonium will level Manhattan, and send the world into a decades long depression. The Russians in 1989 abandoned stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium, and what separated those bomb grade materials from people walking up and taking it was a chain linked fence with a lock. They do not know if some of these amounts were stolen, they were not tracked. Their suitcase nukes were placed in countries they believed they would be at war. They could be in the US already. None of this is difficult, especially with suicidal terrorists. We need to be close to the toxic pool where these monsters live, and we have to shoot them from the shore. We need to know what they are doing. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. I don’t want any of this, but waiting for them to come is a fool’s errand. (Just keep killing, and stop wasting blood and treasure on “nation building.”)
Killing terrorists is the goal and the more that are killed the safer the world will be. I just hope they get great at it. I’ll finish with General Curtis Lemay on war:
“I’ll tell you what war is about, you’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough, they stop fighting.”