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Originally Posted by schmol
Here's a thought, how about we stop sending 12 billion to Iraq every month and start using it for the people in this country...
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I was under the impression that fighting global terrorism WAS "using it for the people in this country". The days are long gone when we could hide within our borders and be left alone. Hell, we can't even secure the borders from unarmed fruit pickers and pregnant illegals looking to birth a new citizen.
There may be disagreements about whether fighting Al Qaida in Iraq is an effective tactic (maybe I missed the other specific suggestions), but the truth is that we need to be fighting them SOMEWHERE, and they don't have their own country anymore since we took Afghanistan away from the Taliban. So we can either be eternally vigilant and hope that we spot the van with the nuke before it gets within range of any building in the USA with people in it, or we can find them and kill them wherever they are. I like plan B, myself.
At any rate, whether we spend my tax dollars on killing strangers in Iraq, or feeding/housing/educating strangers in Philadelphia, I'm benefited directly about the same. Actually, killing people who want me dead has the advantage over subsidizing the next generation of domestic thugs.