The United States NEVER sent chemical weapons to Iraq. That is a hard LEFTIST propaganda point with less than zero evidence behind it.
These are weapons that were not destroyed after the first war with Iraq.
How many Iraqis participated in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993?
The absurd premise that the world is neatly divided into anti-American enclaves that have no connected interaction is ridiculous and the foundational premise of our current dangers. Iraq did attack US jets constantly after the first war with Iraq. Saddam celebrated the attacks on 911 and his agents did help with the first WTC bombing.
I actually don’t think George Washington would have waged the war— and such a question exposes the dangerous ignorance of the Rand Paulians that want to enter a world of denial and false pretense.
I do think that Thomas Jefferson after exasperating every foolish isolationist premise of diplomacy constituted the US Marines to end the Islamic Barbary pirates from attacking US merchant vessels in the Mediterranean. What the US military accomplished then on the “shores of Tripoli” was Regime Change plain and simple. So yes, even colonialists could recognize the foolishness of your premised foreign policy.
They will not leave us alone.
It is dangerous denial to pretend that they will. What the nation needs is not more isolation but a public more willing to support their warriors who do the job their public cannot fathom.
We ought to be grateful that GWB was a courageous enough leader to understand this necessity and not cut and run as the great Reagan did after more than 200 marines were bombed by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon. This nation has no choice but to engage those who every day brag that they will destroy this nation. No amount of denial will ever change that fact.
“They will not leave us alone. It is dangerous denial to pretend that they will. What the nation needs is not more isolation but a public more willing to support their warriors who do the job their public cannot fathom.”
I know they won’t; Jersey City is adjacent to my town (packed with Muslims). We need to get them out of here first; they didn’t fly here from Saudi Arabia to smash the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
I agree with the Washington pretense, I feel he would be hardest on the case where the most responsibility is due. I do feel that he would be strong on prosecuting for 9/11. But he would have no problem making some moves to encourage the Saudis to crack down on al qaeda and jihadist groups within their own country. I also do feel that he wouldn’t be shooting for a prolonged occupation of Iraq, either.
The United States spoke positively about Iraq initially, with the reason being that Saddam was secular and more tolerant of nonchristian religions and an enemy of the Iranian regime, the very ones who revolted, and turned into a fundamentalist extremist regime. When the confirmations came through that Saddam was attacking other nations besides Iran neighboring him, and was pretty much performing mass killings of Kurds and others, and was a brutal dictator, opinion rapidly changed about him.
I agree very well that the extremists won’t leave us alone, it’s like thinking that the Nazis would simply have left the U.S. alone if we did nothing in the Atlantic or Europe, the demonstratable power makes the U.S. a target for power hungry ideologies, because they know that the number one challenge to them staying powerful as an empire is the risk of getting the United States ticked off.