You've got some nerve calling this Obama a chickenhawk whilst simultaneously being against having boots on the ground. All the while the Cheetohawk took 5 deferments, says he knows more about ISIS than the generals, talks willy nilly about Nukes, while having as much military experience as a kid playing with the little green army men... Much as we don't like them, those drone strikes and bombing runs kept my family out of harms way.
It remains to be seen what he does militarily. His ideas about making us more secure are along the lines of limiting immigration from areas that host terrorists. The bombings in no way kept your family out of harm's way. You were just lucky to not be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thank goodness you weren't at the Boston Marathon, the night club in Florida, San Bernadino, etc.
Looks like there's a new record every year as the population grows. The article even says it started before Obama and I think the Baby Boomer population bump that's now retiring might have something to do with this as well. Fake news.
Virtually anything and everything we do in the Middle East is oil and gas related. "Building democracy" is nothing but a smoke screen.
The baby boomers retiring accounts for a fraction, maybe 1/2, of the total new people who left the labor force. http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-pres...son-for-the-drop-in-labor-force-participation Retiring Baby Boomers Are Not the Main Reason for the Drop in Labor Force Participation
I wasn't a fan of building democracy. But once committed, we had no good option but to see it through. Hence the surrender was a disaster.
No but my family was in Afghanistan. They were in Iraq. I'm happy they're home. I'm glad neither of them are in Syria.
That's the kind of numbers GIs getting killed by accident on base at home. It shows decreasing and minimal violence while we were still there. The 60 and 54 the following years was before our surrender. The two years highlighted show Obama inherited an Iraq at peace. And there was no ISIS.
Sure. They can do that with our troops stationed there. A puny ISIS army was able to overrun major Iraqi cities without our presence and influence there.
