We stood strong for about 70 years after WWII. We didn’t use nukes to face off the U.S.S.R., and we prevailed. True enough the trouble didn’t end there, but I don’t think it’s out of line to say we dominated the planet without using nukes again.
We can still dominate, if we opt to play the game.
If we don’t play the game, the lessons of history will be lost on us.
We shouldn’t be involved in every conflict, but certain ones we almost have to to keep world peace.
I know sometimes it looks like we’re actually starting a larger war, but if we don’t the larger war will develop anyway.
We either stand up when the skirmish is first started and say no, or we have to clean up a massive problem once it grows.
We should be kicking ISIL’s ass right now. Instead we’re going to wait until it dominates the whole Middle-East, and then we’ll have to man up and put it down.
I agree that our nations is a basket case right now. That doesn’t mean we should give up. We do the best we can until we can’t do it any longer.
IMO we made a mistake getting rid of Saddam, Col Daffy, attempting to get rid of Assad, assisting in getting rid of the Shah of Iran....it has all blown up in our faces.
We westerners don’t understand what it takes to keep these Muslim Maniacs in line and these guys did. Yeah, the Saudis as a whole have played both ends - i.e. funding the radical beliefs that now may consume them, but overall they seemed to realize they need us.
And now here we are in one of our most dangerous situations and we’ve got an arrogant nincompoop at the helm - one who spent his formative years as a muslim and listening to his mother and step-father bash the USA.
Great. It’s enough to make you think God has turned his back on us.