I can’t tell you how many serious arguments I went through in 2003 over a beer with my “let’s go to war cake walk in Iraq buddies” and make a new democracy. We’re still buddies and they tend to be more mellow now and understand that conservatism is not blindly waging war and selling out our economy to China, but keeping our nation sovereign and economically strong and creating opportunities for every American willing to produce.
Open borders only reduces and dilutes opportunities for Americans. My biggest concern is the same conniving thieves that created the Iraq fiasco will turn Americans against each other and purposely create
anarchy. They are experts at brainwashing clueless people.
Too many conservatives have allowed the thieving lying politicians and media corporatists to define their beliefs.
Our soldiers got a raw deal.
At least Vietnam was a battle in a larger geo-political war, and it did show the Soviets that they weren’t just going to go into the Third World and take over all of those countries without a fight, those deaths weren’t in vain, because it was a factor that ultimately led to the Fall of the Wall, even though the Communists ultimately prevailed in Vietnam.
Looking now at Iraq, it wasn’t worth the death of a single Buck Private.