Quote:So you don't want to fight ISIS any more?  I thought that was one of Trump's prime campaign promises- that he would defeat ISIS. 

Yeah and I thought Obama promised to pull out of Afghanistan, Iraq, reduce European forces, and close Guantanamo. Fight an ideology? When ISIS is defeated, what named ideology is next? The issue is tied to lack of states organization and regional religious extremism that is centuries old. What is new is the US actually showing it attention. It would be easy to pull back from Europe and the Middle East to say we will worry about our little chunk of land. Unfortunately, globalization doesn't allow for this. Crap will eventually flow to our borders.

 

I'm all for assisting and providing legitimate governments the tools to fight their own battles, but I'm not for making it our own until our liberties are challenged. We are now at an unfortunate crossroads where we either go full bore or get away from it completely. At this point, it is not a Clinton thing, a Bush thing, an Obama thing, or even a Trump thing. It is doing what is right for the US and assisting to uphold simple rights of humanity. What I would honestly like is the political showboating that has gone on the last 20 years plus to go away and become more hard line to avoid kicking the can down the road until that can is the size of a dumpster. This 10 strikes and pink lines policy crap has to go! Talk is cheap. Before you ask, I don't know what the answer for China, N.K, Iran, Libya, Yemen, or even Syria is at this point. All these places have been allowed to fester because the US is too afraid to piss someone off or escalation, which is absurd since it will happen eventually.

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