Total up all our casualties since 9-11-01 & compare them to our losses in Vietnam.a fan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:15 pmAnd not only do you want to ignore how many soldiers have died or been wounded in the Gulf War, the Iraq War, the Afghan War, and all the countless ME wars that don't have a name that we've been fighting for decades, and pretend they didn't happen. And then there's all the PTSD suicides that "don't count" in your book.
Alllllll because military guys like you thought it was better to have dead Americans, instead of either paying a few more nickels at the gas pump because you were convinced we HAD to mess around in the ME. Or because you think that tens of thousand of American casualties will stop terrorism, same as BibI thinks.
Every death and casualty in the ME, that started way back in 1953 is because of you and your way of thinking.
So don't come on here and tell me "you have no idea"....when I have told you REPEATEDLY to get us the F out. YOU WANT TO STAY, because you think you're smart, and have no interest in evaluating these choices, and FINALLY changing course. You want full steam ahead, and don't ever want to look at the outcome.
So for example, the REASON you think we need to stay in Afghanistan didn't fall from the sky. It's because all those years ago, guys like you thought it was swell to arm and train and bankroll religious nuts in Afghanistan. And shocker of all shockers, we're still dealing with this idiotic choice 50 years later. Awesome. And you think training and arming MORE religious nutjobs will fix it. Real smart.
You'll NEVER learn. You'll NEVER stop doing this. We'd have military bases in every country if we let you. Well, except Ukraine, naturally, because you want Putin to "win".
Since 9-11, we've had 4 CinC's, 2 from each party, funded & supported by both parties in both Houses of Congress.
Now you're whining that we don't have bases in Ukraine. Poland's President offered to name our base there Fort Trump.
That should be close enough.
I get that you hate our oil dependent American way of life & economy.
So move to your EUroparadise, ride the trains, heat with coal, & complain about the US.
Unless you're willing to abandon Israel & our Arab allies to Iranian regional hegemony, stop your whining.
Unless you are willing to see Israel cease to exist & give Iran control of all ME oil, we have to maintain a military presence in the ME.
Even Biden gets that, & so does Trump.