stated years ago that there should be no superpower nation in the world, and he has worked diligently to reduce the USA from its superpower status.
The result is the surge of terrorist activity because they do not fear retaliation from us. Red lines drawn in the sand mean nothing.
The problem, at this point, of simply withdrawing from our entanglements in the middle East is that absent our influence some of the involved nations will return to being open training grounds for terrorists who are determined to attack our nation and our people overseas.
After the Battle of Fredrecksburg in the Civil War, General Stonewall Jackson viewed the devastation inflicted on the civilians of that city by Northern forces and uttered these words regarding the enemy, "Kill them. Kill them all."
That is the solution to the terrorist problem.
Unleash the military.