A Nod To The Gods

 

And here is Ilhan heading to a foreign policy meet up with the squad.

Julian Castro drops presidential bid, he was the poster-boy for identity politics, don’t let the door hit you in the ass tuff guy.

I think it’s past time to get the hell out of these mid-eastern conflicts. With the attack on the American Embassy in Iraq it’s obvious the people of that war torn country could give a rats ass about what America is trying to do there…..and to be honest neither do I.

We have been in these desert shit holes for way to long without and end game, as the Afghanistan papers admitted, this has been a losing proposition from the get go. Just because war hawks think we should rebuild these countries I think it would be prescient to at least claim a victory first.  If it can’t be won and we can’t win hearts and minds then it’s a terrible waste.

They don’t want us there, our troops sure don’t want to be there, a majority of the American people don’t want our troops there, so why in in the hell are we still there? Is it just a bunch of pentagon bureaucrats and military pen pushers making these decisions? Is there a deeper and more sinister (profitable) reason? I don’t know.

Trying to turn these places into democracies won’t work, they have been fighting with each other for over 1000 years, same sand, same reason, and there is nothing the United States can do to change their minds, we’re just scapegoats for whatever perceived injustice they can come up with.  There was no Arab Spring, that was Obama and Clinton’s reason to get rid of Gaddafi and opening up the spigot of refugees to Europe. 

Let these countries fight their own battles, we have enough issues of our own. Oil doesn’t rule the day like it did for the last 50 years because of own energy production. If we don’t need to serve our interests protecting mid-eastern oil, what are our national interests there?

Let Erdogon, MBS, Assad, Iran, Iraq, and all the others knock themselves out, I won’t miss watching a PGA player in Dubai and I certainly won’t miss the news of another American being killed protecting someone else’s dirt. If Russia want’s to be the new sheriff in town, go right ahead, let them spend blood and treasure in these hell holes, lord knows we spent our fair share.

If the military complex and intelligence communities, (intelligent?), think “if we don’t fight them over there we will be fighting them here” so be it. Do your fucking jobs and track the bastards down, and if you can’t do that, shut off flow of visa’s/refugees from all mid-eastern countries….yeah that ought to do it. And while your at it start profiling sketchy looking Europeans, especially the first and second generation imports.

That is all.

 

 

Reminded me of this…