The President is absolutely right. What was it Eisenhower warned? “Beware the military-industrial complex.” In our time, we could say it as beware the military-industrial-big tech-federal intelligence/law enforcement/administrative state/big media complex. In simpler terms the cancer Eisenhower warned us about has metastasized a thousand fold or more.
We have been helping the Kurds in Syria for 6 years. With our help, they have gained military and political control of a significant and contiguous portion of the country and have mostly peace with Assad. Sure, they helped us fight ISIS, but they were the CLEAR benefactors of OUR support. How long do they expect us to stay? Decades? If Assad is willing to cede land to Turkey without a fight, are we now supposed to defend Syrian soil?
The future war is in Asia. China is loving America slowly be weakened. Dithering in the sh*tholes of Afghanistan,Iraq and Syria has been for very little gain with an enormous cost to America. We haven’t declared war since WWII. We destroyed the Axis in less than 4 years but can’t seem to or want to defeat our enemy that we can’t seem to identify. Almost 20 years in the “war on terror” and similar misadventures.
Most Americans would agree with that statement.
If we want to end ISIS then we must admit the truth that it is a war against Islam and attack the ideological foundations that support it.
“WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN,” the president added.
Winning!
I’d let all the troublesome countries in the Mid East know that if the Islamic CANCER killing their nations begins to spread to the United States we will bomb them back to stone age.
ROE will be extremely limited. The cost will be devastating.
If I read Trump correctly, he’s merely employing the Nixon strategy on Vietnam: break our deal and we’ll bomb the crap out of you.
It worked great until the CIA engineered Nixon’s resignation. Oh, well.
Trump has 5 years to set this policy in stone and make it work. I suppose identifying who to bomb the crap out of is always difficult, but it’s a lesser problem than maintaining US troops indefinitely in these sh** holes.
Another problem is nuclearized states that own that deterrent (thank you Bill Clinton on the Norks and Obama on Iran). China went nuclear after the Taiwan live “Taiwan Straits” wars of late 50’s. The incentive is large, so nuke programs must be eradicated quickly.
Speaking of which, one of the absolutely worst Obama legacies is Libya, which surrendered its nuke program under Bush but nut-jobs Clinton/Obama killed him for it. Iran took note.