Quote from: BitcoinMagician on September 12, 2015, 08:02:18 PM

No need to exploit this divide, I really don't think we should be in the middle east anymore. The US has no role to play there. What are we even fighting anymore!? Yeah, yeah "war on terror"... but I don't think this is a wise use of our resources. This whole situation is not as big a threat as it once was. The biggest threat we've had in modern times are security vulnerabilities, that's what caused 9/11. The only thing we have to do overseas is protect and advice our allies. Let the divide in the Muslim community of the middle east play itself out. We don't have to involve ourselves in every tragedy in Africa and the middle east. We have more urgent issues at home.

We're not doing right by our own citizens. Our citizens and our allies should be priority! When we've met most of their needs, maybe then we can go into some broken nation and try to get their people proper security, governments, lifestyle, etc. But right now, we just don't have the resources.

America didn't go to the middle east or any other place to spread democracy. Or to improve security or lifestyle of people there. And it's not that America went there to fight terror. Iraq had nothing to do with terror until it was destroyed by years of sanctions and then war for example. America went there for the same reason it went into many other places. To keep control of the region and all other regions that depend on it for oil and other resources. And to funnel money to corporations, weapons manufacturers and military contractors. And I don't believe security vulnerabilities are the biggest threat. The biggest threat is the impact that the hundreds of thousands that died is having. And will have in the future. Radicalizing whole countries, sectarian conflicts, more terror attacks, waves of refugees, etc.