It seems that it was bad. The Democrats are saying it's because Donald Trump did something. Because nothing bad has ever happened in the Middle East before.
What's interesting is that nobody is talking about the US history in the Middle East. George Bush got us into a war in Iraq, and then kept us there throughout his entire administration. The Democrats thought this was self-evidently bad. Then Obama did one better and got two wars in the Middle East (Libya and Iraq) which have been going on ever since.
But the Democrats are saying that it is self-evidently bad that Trump is pulling our soldiers out of what seems to be never ending wars. Man, I'm so old that I remember when they thought wars with no objective or end were bad.
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Spot on, sir.
tk421a, that's absurd. Our allies didn't send ships because they don't have any - we've paid for their defense for so long that they've been under funding their militaries for decades. It appears that Germany has essentially *NO* combat ready aircraft, and only a few dozen combat ready tanks. And they're the biggest economy in Europe.
Trump is easy to blame, but this sort of nonsense has been going on for a long, long time. I don't remember you commenting here before, but I've been posting for a long time about how NATO has been free riding on us. Trump is doing something about it - which the Euros hate. That's what's causing friction, not Trump's style.
Said differently, it's not his style, it's his results that they don't like. He's not letting them cheat (as much).
"Eventually go the way of Rome."
Our money is rotten.
Yeah, let's not engage in the fact that the bulk of vested by the US with either UN actions or otherwise are funded in blood, manpower, money, equipment, time, logistics, food, etc etc etc. Lets also not forget that alliances change with political or tribal winds at the drop of a hat anywhere, but especially the middle east. Lets not also forget that Obama pulled us out of areas and inserted us in areas in the middle east that causes even more firestorms as much as everyone slammed the Bush.20 for. While I could agree with say mebbe give some material support to the Kurds, did we are are not we still involved in Afghanistan after we gave support to the same sort of assholes we supported to fight the Soviet Union? Suddenly with out a lot to do they found us a target..
tk421a, I also believe that the Kurds will set the ISIL fighters/terrorists free - probably with a 7.62X39 to the back of the head.
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