But that's okay. If I agreed with absolutely everything on this site, it would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?
And I agree completely with you on Clinton's adventures in the Balkans - we never should have gotten into it. But I wholly and completely supported the troops. I had a good friend who went over as part of Virginia's 29th ID - he was the Regimental Engineer. Was happy he made it home safely.
"I guess I do have some isolationist tendencies, but I would argue that this conversation is hardly proof of that."
Post 46: "1. Stop intervening in foreign countries' affairs. Bring all the troops back and put them on the southern border."
Barbary Pirates, Quasi War, those could be termed interfering in the 'affairs' of other nations.
Point is, pulling our troops out of everywhere is not strategically sound, nor wise.
We do have interests overseas, and not having troops within a few hours transport distance of possible trouble spots is a bad idea.
"but we were in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait." -post 77 in response to me saying that 9/11 didn't happen due to us being in Afghanistan or Iraq.
In essence, your response is saying that it happened due to us being in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
IF we didn't have troops in Saudi Arabia, we would not have been able to topple Saddam.