America does not need another nation wrapped around our necks.
We can’t afford to pay our retirees their Social Security checks. Rumors abound that congress is working to cut Social Security benefits and raise the retirement age even higher. American people have paid years into Social Security while the fund has continued to be robbed and spent in other places. Let’s think really hard. I wonder where those places might have been. How about Iraq and Afghanistan? Both wars have cost over $4 trillion plus and over 6,000 lives.
Americans do not want to waste another trillion dollars on a Middle East country. We certainly do not want to lose another thousand lives or even one life in Syria. Why would we want to go to Syria? Who would we fight? Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad? I grant you he is a bad guy and there are plenty of people in Syria and the Middle East who do not like him. Would this be America’s job to fight his army and take him out? Then what happens? Do we set up 20,000 troops in Syria to patrol the country and do we try to establish order in this already crazy part of the world? We’ve done such a great job in Iraq and Afghanistan—not!
