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So now we are in an (unprecedented) era in our US history, when we define our US military as a force that can't be sent overseas to fight a war against a real professional military force, led by former Army generals, that openly vows to attack the US, and has already killed Americans , as well as thousands of Middle Easterners. A force that has acquired banks, oil fields, and enormous wealth.
Well, if we cant send our troops out to fight a vicious enemy like this, who would they be sent to fight ? If not ISIS, then who ? If not now, then when ? I'd have to say, there IS NO SCENARIO in which US ground troops would EVER be sent to fight, anywhere/anytime. So this being the case, what's the point of having a US Army, US Marines, and US Air Force (the planes conducting airstrikes are Navy planes from an aircraft carrier) We have NAtional Guard here at home to guard the nation, as well as millions of local and state police forces.
So why have a national military equipped to fight internationally, when you're not going to use it under critical circumstances ? Especially when that military is very expensive. So they can march around in US military bases and train, and practice to fight a war they can't be sent to ?
This is all lunacy. To say we are not going to put boots on the ground, and can't do that, is the most idiotic thing I've seen in politics in my whole life, and I'm not particularly young. Imagine if some bonehead came up with that idea in 1942. Wow! Where would we be now ? WHAT would we be ? If we would exist at all.
And what must the 1500 troops who ARE over in Iraq right now be thinking ? As well as the ones who fought to secure Fallujah, which ISIS took over in Jan. 2014, while Obama was calling them a JV team.
Well, if we cant send our troops out to fight a vicious enemy like this, who would they be sent to fight ? If not ISIS, then who ? If not now, then when ? I'd have to say, there IS NO SCENARIO in which US ground troops would EVER be sent to fight, anywhere/anytime. So this being the case, what's the point of having a US Army, US Marines, and US Air Force (the planes conducting airstrikes are Navy planes from an aircraft carrier) We have NAtional Guard here at home to guard the nation, as well as millions of local and state police forces.
So why have a national military equipped to fight internationally, when you're not going to use it under critical circumstances ? Especially when that military is very expensive. So they can march around in US military bases and train, and practice to fight a war they can't be sent to ?
This is all lunacy. To say we are not going to put boots on the ground, and can't do that, is the most idiotic thing I've seen in politics in my whole life, and I'm not particularly young. Imagine if some bonehead came up with that idea in 1942. Wow! Where would we be now ? WHAT would we be ? If we would exist at all.
And what must the 1500 troops who ARE over in Iraq right now be thinking ? As well as the ones who fought to secure Fallujah, which ISIS took over in Jan. 2014, while Obama was calling them a JV team.