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Just your comment about being out of job if not for crazies is a little unsettling. Perhaps I'm reading to much into it, but wouldn't it be a good to not have ISIS and alqeada ect... In reality they're both problems we created, alqeada to fight Russia and ISIS to fight Syria but then we spill American blood and sacrifice American liberty in the name of security for fear of these threats we created. It's insanity, we should be reducing our influence world wide. Close the embassies in hostile nations. Pull out of NATO and the UN and take care of our own but decade long campaigns make all that impossible.


I'm sorry I just can subscribe that a job, any job working for the government entitled people to paychecks for life, healthcare for life, free education, and then take grips about federal debt seriously. What you are advocating is selective socialism, and even selective socialism is dangerous.

 

Eric, for the most part politically I agree with most of your posts.  However, this one I must disagree with.  You really should do a bit of research.

 

We did not "create" Al Qaeda or ISIS.  When it comes to Al Qaeda, it was spawned from other factions including the faction that we did fund and help, that being The Taliban.  However, at the time they were not called or referred to as The Taliban.  You have to remember that the rest of the world does not "see" things the way that we do.  The group that we funded to fight against the Soviet Union was in fact a "state" or the countries that we know as Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Some of those fighters broke off and formed their own "union" that became known as "The Taliban".  Part of that group broke off yet again and became known as Al Qaeda.

 

Also remember that this was still during the "Cold War" and the Soviet Union was our biggest enemy and threat.

 

It was all about ideology.  Today the bigger and more powerful factions are gaining more strength and are getting way more lethal.  You can not deal with these people by conventional means (talk) or conventional warfare.  They do not respect the rules of the Geneva Convention, and they conduct warfare in a ruthless and dangerous way.

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