Sandy Clark, CGCS said: We never went into any country to take it over and stay! We have always gone it to hopefully free a country from tyrants and give them an opportunity for freedom.
Yeah, well...that is part of it. We HAVE to say that.
Unfortunately we lack the courage to be honest and say we are doing what we are doing to protect/preserve American interests abroad (oil, key trade routes, markets, etc.).
Instead we have to come up with a more..."humanitarian" reason to make it politically palatable.
For over 200 years (or 400 if you are in Jackson lee's district in TX) America has been a richly powerful nation...and it hasn't been because the government sends our troops in to spread peace and democracy.
President Lincoln said,
"At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher."I sense we are authoring up some self-destruction now...will we finish it?
I don't know, I'm more worried about those black holes swallowing up airliners