I’m not anti war by any means but I see no reason to spend decades at war and no reason at all to be involved in other nations internal conflicts.
War is an expensive business.
I’m reading Paul Kengor’s “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” I just read the chapter on arming the Mujaheedin in their fight against the USSR and it left me asking “how did we come to replace the USSR in this hell hole?” If RR were alive today, I cannot believe he would support the mess we’ve made there. Oh, lest we forget, there are unforseen consequences for these imperial endeavors. The USSR had an epidemic of heroin abuse after their incursion into Afghanistan. Today, the United States is experiencing the same thing.
History is full of irony, and the greatest recurring ironies is that nations become that which they fight against. Not always, not completely, but far too often the similarities grow to outnumber the differences.
It is not that history repeats so much as human nature does not change.
I'm not anti-war either. I'm against going to war if you're not going to fight it to win as soon as possible and then go home.
We forgot how to do that after 1950.
War is the health of The State.
How’s D.C. doing now days?
I think if we need to send troops somewhere, once we have accomplished what we need to do we need to bring them home. We need to stop spending years to win hearts and minds and attempt to mold these countries into something their population does not understand enough to even desire.
Righto. Interesting it is not covered by a war surtax rather than whacking the social budget.