Col. Wilkerson: If Americans Want Ground Forces To Fight ISIS, Let's Have A Draft

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37. And who decided that the US has to be the planet's military police?

The Saudis have been brilliant at getting us to do their dirty work in the Middle East.

Continuing to fight wars with a religious context is like living Groundhogs day over and over. You will never win a religious war because all sides are equally crazy and will refuse to learn to get along. Even the various factions within Islam can't get along with one another. It is time that we pulled out and let them have at it. With all of the various wars we have fought there, at not time as the underlining issues ever been dealt with so there will always be wars there.

As to a war on terror, that is the most stupid war to ever get into because terrorism is like a hydra, you get rid of one group and another rises up to take its place because, again the underlining issues have never been dealt with.

With modern day weapons, you don't need a huge military and it is wasteful to have such a large military budget. It is horrifying that the MIC and PTB wnat to fight war after to war to fund the MIC and yet they don't really care about the consequences of all of these wars - the men and women who come back home physically or emotionally damaged. They get these people torn up and don't want to pay to put them back together which is morally wrong.

Reducing military spending would allow us to invest in our own country. Our infrastructure is crumbing at a far greater rate then it can be repaired. More and more manufacturing is shipped overseas. More money could be spent on creating alternative energy sources and innovation. This country has stopped investing in itself while allowing the 1%ers and Corporations to ship more jobs overseas. A bloated military budget is speeding up the decline we face within our own country. History has shown that as a country spends more money and resources on war, the country drops in global standing. For example, the USSR broke up because it could not keep pace with the US level of military spendig. Great Britain used to be the biggest global power but lost that crown by the end of WWII as it saw some of its empire vanishing.

The only thing that keeps us where we are in international affairs are our nuclear weapons. It is not how much everyone else admires us. I just don't think that we are viewed in anywhere near as favorable a light around the work as a lot of people think we are. I think that a lot of countries probably view us a greater threat then gropus like ISIS because we have te ability to throw our weight around on a much larger scale.

If we want to make a mark in the world let it be for better reasons then fighting religious wars. The issues of climate change and endangered/protected species have more long range global impact then fighting the next group in the Middle East.