U.S. foreign policy is a murderous mess, particularly in the Middle East. There aren't many superpowers that get chased out of 3rd world backwaters by illiterate bands of men armed with shovels but the U.S. managed that deeply embarrassing defeat with our vanity intact. We wrecked Iraq, Syria, and Libya (then the richest country in Africa). We're backing a genocide and mass murder of children in broad daylight in one of the poorest territories on the planet. The world's greatest navy has proved incapable of protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from land based attacks by another third world backwater which was embargoed and bombed by a U.S. backed coalition until Chinese diplomacy intervened. Now, we're back to bombing Iraq and Syria to keep us safe from ISIS whose fighters the U.S. trained in and deployed from the illegal al-Tanf military base in Syria to fight the CIA's Syrian dirty war. And we're back to bombing Yemen, too.
Pardon me but I don't believe for a nanosecond that the safety of the homeland has anything to do with our illegal occupations, wars, and genocides. Instead, it has everything to do with keeping the region's oil supplies under U.S. control and Iran isolated. In the process, we managed to wreck Iran's counterweight in the region and demonstrate the incompetence and stupidity of our feckless leaders and the weakness of our military.
Two things to be noted here. 1) It is our very presence in places we don't belong doing all manner of things we should not have done (and are doing), that have created these terror groups. 9/11 a direct result. 2) We scatter these troops out in small bases to make them sitting ducks. One could argue fairly effectively that we willing sacrifice our own soldiers for an opportunity to hit back hard in retaliation. If this isn't the case, then the strategy behind these deployments is simple incompetence. I'm willing to concede incompetence abounds, but I'm also not so naive as to think we don't mind if a few soldiers die for an opportunity to destroy other lands and foster the next generation of terrorists for which a few get rich and our politicians drool in delight at funding more of the war machine.
U.S. foreign policy is a murderous mess, particularly in the Middle East. There aren't many superpowers that get chased out of 3rd world backwaters by illiterate bands of men armed with shovels but the U.S. managed that deeply embarrassing defeat with our vanity intact. We wrecked Iraq, Syria, and Libya (then the richest country in Africa). We're backing a genocide and mass murder of children in broad daylight in one of the poorest territories on the planet. The world's greatest navy has proved incapable of protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from land based attacks by another third world backwater which was embargoed and bombed by a U.S. backed coalition until Chinese diplomacy intervened. Now, we're back to bombing Iraq and Syria to keep us safe from ISIS whose fighters the U.S. trained in and deployed from the illegal al-Tanf military base in Syria to fight the CIA's Syrian dirty war. And we're back to bombing Yemen, too.
Pardon me but I don't believe for a nanosecond that the safety of the homeland has anything to do with our illegal occupations, wars, and genocides. Instead, it has everything to do with keeping the region's oil supplies under U.S. control and Iran isolated. In the process, we managed to wreck Iran's counterweight in the region and demonstrate the incompetence and stupidity of our feckless leaders and the weakness of our military.
McKenzie is a dangerous idiot.
I’m old enough to remember when we backed ISIS because we wanted to topple Assad.
"We gotta fight ISIS" is and ever always was a pretext.
American troops are in Syria and Iraq at the behest of Israel, to fight the Syria and Iran.
Two things to be noted here. 1) It is our very presence in places we don't belong doing all manner of things we should not have done (and are doing), that have created these terror groups. 9/11 a direct result. 2) We scatter these troops out in small bases to make them sitting ducks. One could argue fairly effectively that we willing sacrifice our own soldiers for an opportunity to hit back hard in retaliation. If this isn't the case, then the strategy behind these deployments is simple incompetence. I'm willing to concede incompetence abounds, but I'm also not so naive as to think we don't mind if a few soldiers die for an opportunity to destroy other lands and foster the next generation of terrorists for which a few get rich and our politicians drool in delight at funding more of the war machine.