Quote:Maybe I'm mistaken, but are we not supporting the Kurds in the mess in Syria?

Now these Kurds are using terror tactics in Turkey, recently blowing up a bus in Istanbul.

Do we never learn that these factions in that whole area have their own agendas, but will also cater to the highest bidder..

Maybe I'm naive, but just can't get it through my thick skull as to why we help those that keeping [BAD WORD REMOVED] in our face?
Maybe our politicians should look into spending our money to actually help Americans.

Now,of course, comes the debate...who will do that? Trump? Clinton?

 

The way that wars and/or conflicts are "fought" today isn't the same as a few decades ago.  Yes there is some involvement with the military, but a larger portion of it happens in the "covert world".  What you see in the news is not really what is happening in real life.  Much of what happens is done from a keyboard or a cell phone including trading arms and/or intelligence.

 

As far as which of the leading candidates will change that, the answer is pretty much neither.  It's a totally different world that we live in right now.

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