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In reply to the discussion: Johnny McCain: "I Would Be Launching Airstrikes Not Only In Iraq, But In Syria Against ISIS." [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)they are a huge threat to our National Security. Libya has become a failed state, and why again are we trying to topple yet another government in a foreign country where apparently the majority of the people support it?
How about this for an idea. Why don't we come home and stay out of everyone else's business unless they invade this country? If someone did that now, we wouldn't have enough troops and equipment here to defend ourselves. Remember Katrina? The National Guard was elsewhere 'protecting democracy' while people died in NO.
We are behaving like an Empire. This is what Empires do. Why do we want to be an Empire when we were founded on the basis that Imperialism was bad? And it is, ask the victims of Imperialism, see Africa, the ME, and up to recently S. America. All the problems we see in this places was CAUSED by Imperialism.
We can't solve these problems, certainly not with more of what caused them in the first place. Which leads to the question: What ARE we trying to do, because surely no one is stupid enough to think continually killing people is end terrorism?