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Originally Posted by buggyone
It was posted that our absence in Iraq brought us to this point. How about it was our presence in Iraq that brought us to this point? Why did the US get involved in Iraq in the first place? It was not necessary for our national security.
It got around 4,500 Americans killed, many more thousands mutilated, cost trillions of dollars, and led to the hatred of the US throughout the region.
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If you have the need to discuss the past Iraq war, I suggest you start another thread to rehash it one more time.
The relevance is that, for what appears to be domestic political concerns, we fled Iraq, NO MATTER HOW WE GOT THERE, then ignored SYria after the infamous "red line".
Point being made is simply that those two actions or inactions are what has allowed this ISIS movement to become what it
I might add that the imigration issue, specifically the border in the southwest has been an issue for a number of years with our country NOT enforcing our laws. This, hopefully, will not come back to haunt us. There are warnings already issued in that area about ISIS and their interest in our borders being so easy to cross. YET, we hear nothing on that.....nothing.
Beating Iraq to death once again is what we have done since 2007 or 2008 and this is what it has wrought