Honestly, how does everyone here look at this? Do you want to keep fighting or just get the hell out? Just curious about opinions.
I am tired of our soldiers fighting endless overseas wars of one kind or another. I don't trust our current govt to do it right. If those govts over there can't defend themselves then do they really deserve to exist? It isn't like some big foreign power like the Russians are invading (not talking about Ukraine).
I have real mixed feelings.
1.) We should not have gone into Iraq in the first place. We did so because we thought that Iraq had WMDs and might give them to Al-Qaeda. Well, we find out the WMD stuff was overblown (I think Iraq had them and a WMD program but Saddam got rid of it pre-invasion, but let's not get into a debate) and also that whatever ties it had to AQ were largely imaginary and based pretty much on the fact one AQ terr had a broken leg set there.
2.) OK we went in, deposed Saddam and got rid of his vile murderous sons. We ought to have stayed there and assured they could handle a force like ISIS. We broke it and we own it. Obama was far too anxious to get our guys home.
3.) So we left -- what now? I don't think we're going to do much against ISIS with just air power. It may hurt them but I think if we REALLY WANT to TKO ISIS, we need our troops back there and doing what Patton's Third Army did to the Nazi soldaten in WW2 to the ISIS army.
However, I do not trust Obama to get it right....so I think maybe we ought perhaps
not to.
All this may, IMHO, come back to haunt us. Potential future enemies are beginning to see us as a "paper tiger." Putin is making aggressive moves -- we all know about this. China is developing a modernized military force and is making noises about Taiwan and other islands it thinks it ought to possess.
And they have no reason whatever to think America, despite her military and her nuclear missiles has the gumption and stamina to fight a long war and get it right.
Uh, "history check:"
isn't that what the Japanese thought about our country, more or less, pre World War Two? ? ? ? ? I just hope history doesn't repeat ..... but I have bad feelings about the future .....