Then kill them. Don't go over to their countries and engage in stupid nation-building exercises that involve pissing away thousands of American lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars. I knew the Iraq war was a f#%&ing fraud when the transitional government overseen by the U.S. allowed the new Iraqi government to establish a constitution under which -- get this -- Islam is enshrined as the official state religion. Anyone who was surprised to see the place turn into a breeding ground for groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda is a moron.
The biggest state sponsors of radical Islam are in places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Hell -- Pakistan's government even harbored Osama bin Laden after he fled from Afghanistan. Did you ever sit down and ask yourself why this is the case? And why do these countries remain unscathed while the U.S. invades and occupies Islamic countries run by secular dictators?
Which is precisely the Marxist-Leninist version of these things and I am very surprised to hear putative conservatives spouting the same tripe.
I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because Hillary Clinton was the Wall Street/globalist shill in that election. Remarkably to some people (but not to me), she was running on a globalist platform that was nearly identical to the sh!t we saw for eight years during the George W. Bush administration.
Is all of this because you didn't choose to offer yourself in the service of your country when you were young and in your prime?
I actually turned down an opportunity to pursue a nomination to one of the military academies. One of the biggest reasons for this was that I had no faith in my own government to make responsible decisions in the conduct of its military affairs.
I'd make the same decision today. Enlisting young soldiers into our military and sending them anywhere other than our southern border to repel a Latin American invasion is a farce. I'm shocked you can't see this yourself.
As far as our southern border goes, I’m with you. I’d deploy the divisions needed until the wall is finished.
Again, though, you don’t see what’s going on: in places where the regime is a threat - as the Taliban were in Afghanistan - we and those allies who joined us crushed them and handed the country to an interim government. Our role has been to help keep the raving lunatics at bay until a non- nuts government can survive.
We aren’t « nation building » or acquiring a 51st state, we’re using minimal force to keep that part of the world from returning to be a terrorist base.
We can’t and shouldn’t conduct mass murder in the name of protecting ourselves. We are a moral, courageous nation - not the Nazis.