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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Well if Marines are needed for the next war, not this one, hope you will still feel as proud. Meanwhile you are a "free rider" as well. You got to live a free life without serving your country one iota. And if it turns out you were wrong in some way, no big whoop, right? So what if the country is a little less defended; you did your part, right? Nobody will die from your approach to the whole conflict, although when we last left it you had Kurdish oil that couldn't make it to a secure port without making a deal Turkey would never accept, IIRC.
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As it stands right now, the bigger our overseas presense is the worse we are defended. These conflicts are counter to our national interest. That untenable Kurdish situation was the result of my following an interventionist's train of thought. If I remember properly, it started with me accepting responsibility for earlier interventionist policies. I'm better now.