I suppose your plan would be to leave them embedded with a group Turkey considers terrorists when they are in open conflict. Wow, neo-con wet dream, start a war with Turkey. What could possibly go wrong?
I think the "What could possibly go wrong" bit needs to get in a DeLorean and go back to general bone spurs last week.
There are several argument pathways on the subject of “tin foil hat people”. As far as loss of internet and other forms of privacy affecting “passionate” views regarding politics, both sides seem equally affected. As you are smart enough to be aware, there are foreign interests, business interests, and certain focused wealthy families interested in US political outcomes. So interested, these parties are willing to realize their desired political outcomes through legal, and sometimes illegal means.
I get it that your crowd thinks we haven't been there long enough. I mean, it's only been ten years, and that on a mission that was sold as no more than 30 days. By sand war statistics, ten years is nothing. Afghanistan is 19. Look how well our strategy there has worked out.
Your crowd.. Dude, it has been the USA's express plan to stay in the Middle East and to have influence there since WWII by hook or by crook. The military reason for this should be perfectly obvious and it was NOT some altruistic move, it was to keep a boot on the throat of the USSR and Europe to protect America. You do know why the Middle East has been the most important region in the world to control don't you? All this take our boys home bullshit, what else are they going to do? Your "crowd" wants a massive military with no mission? So they go where? Sit around in bases back home?
You would but you would have lost the Cold War, which has started again. Keeping troops in the Middle East is a good plan and bone spurs is apparently not in on it.
I do get that but I am questioning if that is still the optimal policy. I see the record of the last 30 years as proof that it's not. Do you find it ironic to be supporting the Bush foreign policy?
From a military perspective, holding the Middle East was and will continue to be vital to the US. It is the most important territory to keep a hold on, on the planet.