The WOT was launched because we failed to defend the USA on 9-11.
Curious. How exactly did we "fail to defend" the USA on 9/11?
“Curious. How exactly did we “fail to defend” the USA on 9/11?”
I think the point I was trying to make was we need to be concerned about actually defending the USA, and not the rest of the world. If we are defending others then they should be paying so that the effort and budget to defend the USA itself is not cut.
Had we defended ourselves and had 9-11 been squelched before it began, we wouldn’t be facing a lot of the problems and costs that the WOT has caused, and it would have saved us trillions. Would we have had a WOT or wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Defending is about preventing, like defending the borders so we don’t end up with 20 million illegals sucking up billions; like keeping the Pearl Harbors from happening so we don’t end up in WWs. That’s the way I look at it.