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Originally Posted by Robbie
We are very deliberately a country run by CIVILIANS. The PRESIDENT is in charge of the military.
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Civilians cannot run wars - they just can't.
Vietnam is a perfect example of this. We didn't lose a single battle in Vietnam. However, the civilian government ran this war worried about the political implications. Their goal wasn't to win the war it was to say in office. This is why politicians cannot run a war.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Yes, Generals and military advisers always want war.
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No, this couldn't be more wrong. NO ONE WANTS WAR. Ever. No one.
Generals don't want war. They have employment no matter if we go to war or not. Same thing with a Private. And every between them. If we go to war in the morning or not, they will both still have jobs next week.
It's the same thing with the people who make the planes and missiles and tanks. If we invade North Korea next week, are we going to suddenly put in orders for new planes? Ships? Tanks? No. It doesn't even work that way. We don't go to war and say "we need to build more ships". It takes years to build new ships, and planes. Even missiles. We don't go to war, launch two thousand missiles in one week, and say "oh, we need more". We have millions in storage "in case" we go to war.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I see ZERO reason for our people to be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...or any other country.
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Each country has it's own issues.
We need to be in Afghanistan. It's pretty simple. The Taliban allowed and encouraged 9/11, and after we were attacked refused to do anything about it. So far as the United States government is concerned they were a part of 9/11.
Iraq..... Iraq attacked an ally. When one of our allies gets attacked, we go to war. It's pretty simple. Obama left because we needed to leave. The Iraqi government and military had been replaced and re-created, and ISIS was chased out of the territory. There was no reason for us to stay - NONE.
Syria.... We shouldn't have gone there in the first place, but now that we are there we need to stay to finish the mission. The mission was protecting the Kurds and stopping ISIS. Your president just lied to you saying ISIS was defeated. Everyone knows that is not the case. Moments before Trump made his announcement, ISIS stated a terrorist strike. Even if they were defeated, that is only half of the reason we are there. What Trump just told the world is he doesn't care about what American policy is and he doesn't care about keeping any promises the US governemnt made....
Jesus fucking Christ Robbie... Mr. trump's chief of staff just resigned and utterly fucking slammed him on the way out. Open your eyes already. Look at what is happening. For the past two years the President has been making a complete ass out of the Untied States, shitting on all of our allies. The economy is about to take a huge crap, and nothing has been accomplished other than a tax cut for the rich and renaming NAFTA. The president is now under multiple investigations in every area of his life, personal, business, and political - and everyone involved with him is either going to jail or pleading guilty.
This is madness.