Even if you subscribe (I don't) to the notion that the US has no obligation to prevent mass atrocities and genocide around the world, I assume you support the notion of defending our soil.
Historically, you could argue that staying out of the game of preventing mass atrocities abroad was justified because the groups committing those acts were not a threat to us. I would argue that allowing a terrorist state in Afghanistan led to Al Queda and 9/11, but for the purposes of this discussion, I will even concede that point.
Here is the difference today. Every day you allow ISIS to exist - they grow. Why? Because they have social media and use it to broadcast their well produced propaganda as their vehicle to grow. Not within the middle east, but in the West. In Europe. In America. There are probably dozens of domestic terrorists in the US being created daily with this stuff. When Al Queda was hiding in caves, the most we would see is a three month old video of Bin Laden with an AK in the background. Technology wasn't being used the way it is today.
If we don't put our American Heroes at risk on the ground to wipe out this evil, and do it in a very public way - this movement will remain "sexy" to troubled youth. It is a powder keg waiting to blow up, and it already has in France. If we don't engage our military to do this, what the hell are they for? If our president does not put folks on the ground in a meaningful way to wipe these guys out, it is crystal clear that fulfilling campaign promises and one man's legacy of the liberal Reagan is more important than protecting our people. Our kids, our wives.
Our political correctness and the desire to fulfill a political agenda is going to get a lot of people killed.
Historically, you could argue that staying out of the game of preventing mass atrocities abroad was justified because the groups committing those acts were not a threat to us. I would argue that allowing a terrorist state in Afghanistan led to Al Queda and 9/11, but for the purposes of this discussion, I will even concede that point.
Here is the difference today. Every day you allow ISIS to exist - they grow. Why? Because they have social media and use it to broadcast their well produced propaganda as their vehicle to grow. Not within the middle east, but in the West. In Europe. In America. There are probably dozens of domestic terrorists in the US being created daily with this stuff. When Al Queda was hiding in caves, the most we would see is a three month old video of Bin Laden with an AK in the background. Technology wasn't being used the way it is today.
If we don't put our American Heroes at risk on the ground to wipe out this evil, and do it in a very public way - this movement will remain "sexy" to troubled youth. It is a powder keg waiting to blow up, and it already has in France. If we don't engage our military to do this, what the hell are they for? If our president does not put folks on the ground in a meaningful way to wipe these guys out, it is crystal clear that fulfilling campaign promises and one man's legacy of the liberal Reagan is more important than protecting our people. Our kids, our wives.
Our political correctness and the desire to fulfill a political agenda is going to get a lot of people killed.
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