This is a very uncomfortable position for our country to be in.
In the past, and even now with some, we touted how it is their problem and not our problem thus we should just stay out of it.
For many years, folks have been warning, and when I say years I am talking about right prior to and right after 9/11/2001, that these folks want to kill US...meaning americans.
It is easy to say it is none of our business, but the world is so small now....we are just as open to attack as anyone in the middle east....we cannot take that stance at all.
We need to show leadership and to those who will say, the worlds problems are not the United States problems, I agree, HOWEVER, we are the most powerful and therefore I think have a responsibility to the world to act and we have not. That inaction and lack of leadership has us playing catch up.
It is not too late, and I sure wish there was a magic button for us to push, but it does not exist. I just want us to lock up our border for one....I want us to "get involved" in the world and stop denying our leadership role. Leadership is not always comfortable and easy. I understand how tired we are in this country and I understand we have elections, but as time has worn on, have we not learned how wrong we can be at times.
Just show leadership is all I am asking and especially regarding our border.
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