Agreed ref Clinton and Syria being about gas. And interestingly, Loony tunes McCain is up to his eyeballs in both.
McCain never met a war he didn’t like.
I think of McCain in the White House, and I think of the scene in “The Dead Zone”....”The missiles are flying...Hallelujah...Hallelujah.”
We have never been that way... Korea, Vietnam, the Serbs and Iraq 1 and 2 AND Afghanistan were fought under UN auspices. They were global interventions.
Some logical results of previous actions taken by what became the enemy and some were media induced or helped along by them. I'll let you guess which ones were brought on by the leftist wizards of smart. Hint is that the Serbs is one.
Which is why there were no boots on the ground.
The cold war that I grew up with was the result of Russian aggression. The same aggression we are seeing now but it's less obvious. There is not a single legitimate reason to defend Russia's actions anywhere but in the Caucuses. They are simply natural aggressors in a similar way that two generations of Germans were.
You cannot change the stripes on the zebra or a snake. If you must, you have to exterminate them. A war that is never won only invited further aggression down the road and that is what we have here because we conquered Germany.
You can sit around and may excuses for their behaviors but I will never buy into them. They have no rational excuses. At some point, you will realize that Patton was correct by advocating that the US Army, sitting on their hands in Europe, should proceed to the east and pacify Russia.
Unfortunately, Ike thought he was crazy.