In spite of all of the dead and wounded Americans and a over $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars we are still having to drone terrorists in the streets of Baghdad. Just one more proof point that the Military Industrial Complex doesn’t want to win any wars, they just want continual war.
We should have green-glassed Baghdad and walked away in 1991.
That would be our politicians who prefer to virtue signal about their good intentions, like Bush's catch & release policy on Iraqi terrorists.
A relative did 5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in the USMC. In his opinion, it would have been better and easier just to leave Saddam in charge, and use a small fraction of the money spent just to buy him and his sons off.
“In spite of all of the dead and wounded Americans and a over $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars we are still having to drone terrorists in the streets of Baghdad.”
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Let me make a metaphor about what you just said:
“Despite many hundred of thousands dollars spent on a cancer-patient, it still died from cancer anyway in the end.”
So no matter if we are present or not present in the middle east, the radical islam there is acting like a cancer, no matter what and is always catching up on us.
Morality:
We can chose to fight it over there. Or we chose to fight it over here. Radical Islam will follow us like cancer no matter where we are.
In principle I think it’s wiser to fight it beyond our shores.