I shouldn’t say you’re like a liberal. you are a liberal - your big-government program just happens to be war, not welfare
I think it’s rather cute how the person who chants the McGovern Hippy and Democrats slogans since the 60s and 70s to other forum participants, want us to think we’re the liberals.
William, we spent around $3 trillion on the most recent round of Middle-East wars. Do you know how much we have spent on Welfare since 2000. Well it’s close to $7.5 trillion. Over roughly the same period of time, Welfare is by far the most massive program. None the less, I’m a liberal in your eyes if support wars in our own best interest.
I understand the Left doesn’t. I understand that Liberals don’t. I understand the take of Senator Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Ron and Rand Paul. I understand Richard Gere. I understand A.N.S.W.E.R. and their ilk. I know why they don’t support our war efforts. I don’t understand why you join them in their objections.
You may wish to think of me as a liberal because I support our war efforts. Doesn’t bother me a bit. It’s just one more insult hurled at people who recognize a threat when they see one, from people who will never see a threat until it’s taking down our tallest buildings on our soil.
Ten minutes later, they’ll be back to trashing those of us who think military action is called for. And frankly, I won’t give a damn.
Do you think the Middle-East is a lessor or grater threat to global peace if the ISIS/ISIL effort reaches it’s full goals? Perhaps you think it makes no difference.
It does.
We fight foreign wars so we don’t have to fight domestic ones. We keep our forces on station, because otherwise every future war will be on our soil.
We remain on station because if we don’t, other nations will. We remain on the high seas to protect our commercial rights of free passage.
You can drop by to toss a hisy fit any time you like. I’ll just laugh at you.
Our costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns should have been covered by the nations we entered. Iraq should have reimbursed every bit of our costs. Afghanistan may have been more problematic, but we could have gotten some of the costs reimbursed.
As for the Costs of Welfare, we should have chopped at least half that over the years.
If we had done these two things along, we would only have a debt today of about $9 - $10 trillion.
We can discuss other government promises of reimbursement current to decades out. And we can reduce those in short order too.
We are going to have military engagements as long as we are top dog on the block. And when we are, we’ll win them.
When we aren’t top dog on the block, we will lose them. And we’ll lose them at home.
One nation will be the leader of the world. It will be free, or not. Please tell me what nation besides the U. S. will defend freedom around the planet if we don’t.