Let me be very clear. I am NOT for "you break it, you own it".
I am for a much different approach to our enemies. First of all, I'm not for invading another country with hundreds of thousands of troops, unless that country has attacked us first. Second, I believe that we can do most of the fighting we need to do from the air and with special ops. We should not be in the occupation business. Thirdly, I believe in retribution, but not in nation building.
So as in the case of Afghanistan. They hosted a hostile entity that attacked us. We had every right to destroy that government and that hostile entity. To do that, invasion was necessary and air support and special ops were necessary. We should have pulled out all the stops and never let up until Bin Laden was dead. And we should have broken into Pakistan to do it, if necessary.
But once that job was finished, we should have left, with all of our troops and leave the rotting corpses unburied. Sound harsh? You bet. Let the UN clean up the mess, if they can get their act together enough to do it. Why should we spend billions a year on cleaning up their country when our own is in shambles and going downhill fast? Next time they or any other country or hostile entity won't be so quick to attack us, if we followed those policies.
The bottom line is we should mind our own business and stop policing the world. But if that hostile world spills into attacks against us, then we should make them pay without mercy. In Iraq, Saddam was contained. We were lied to about the WMD and we were forced into a war we should never have fought. |
