Posted on 08/20/2018 6:40:22 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
Pull the troops out. Nuke it from orbit.
“military industrial complex” - Eisenhower was right.
Get out and stay out.
There is nothing to “win” there.
Unless you like goats and poppies.
The only Hessians who were mercenaries were the ones who defected and fought for the Colonials.
Believe what you want but there is a small line in the Declaration which contradicts you:
“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation”
Maybe you could expand on your version of reality so that we can see where the Founders and historians like Lowell went wrong.
We tried to do exactly that back in the 1980s after we helped them drive out the Soviets, let them live the way they live. Want to know what happened as a result? The 1993 world trade center bombings, Black Hawk Down, USS Cole, and 9/11, that’s what happened. If we do that, we’ll be right back where we started. So no, we can’t afford to just “say goodbye and good luck.” That strategy has long since passed.
Of course, personally, I’d prefer just dropping a nuke on Mecca, do the same thing to Islam and the Middle East that we did to the Japanese back in World War II, especially when the precepts that drove the Japanese to do their acts, Shintoism, is not that much different than with Islam’s tenants, and thus probably would elicit a similar reaction if we nuked them to kingdom come, break them. However, that’s not a viable option as of yet.
Considering the guy who wrote the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, threw his lot towards the Jacobins and Robespierre, who actually DID much of the description and heck, even went as far as to help draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which if anything pretty much expanded on the crap that he railed against when it was King George who did that, not to mention was content with literally no military in America at all until the Barbary Pirates forced him to change his mind, I’d argue that’s where we went wrong.
Besides, even the Founding Fathers hired mercenaries. As another person pointed out, we hired a few Hessians who sided AGAINST Great Britain.
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