America First: Keep Our Boys Out of It, but Shoot Down Iranian Ballistics and Drop a MOAB or Two

America develops and deploys excellent weapons, but fails when boots hit the ground.

We never should have put boots on the ground in Iraq and elsewhere after 9/11. The Iraqis and Iranians were doing a wonderful, marvelous job — indeed, G-d’s holy work — of killing half a million of each other for eight years, at a cost of more than $1 trillion. That was approximately equal to America’s total debt (not just deficit) at that time. (Now $34 trillion.)
The fantasy of “regime change” was disastrous. Every time either George Bush spoke of Islam as a religion of peace, we cringed. They said every Iraqi’s heart pulsated with a passion to live in a Western-style democracy with Bill of Rights values. Remember the purple fingers to prove they had cast their democracy ballots? Well, maybe not exactly committed to all ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, like freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion. But definitely passionate about the right to bear arms, grenades, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and guns (albeit not the right to bear arms).
Yes, of course, there are millions of peaceful Muslims, many exceptionally kind and tolerant. But overseas regime change? It is absurd to go overseas to transmogrify people who prefer dictatorships. They don’t mind their tyrants, as long as the tyrannies are reasonable. They look at our democracy, and they recoil as they see what we see.
“We don’t want synagogues or Jews here. We also don’t want Christians or churches either, except for the ones we can forcibly convert into mosques.” Regime change, from Iraq to Afghanistan, was never going to work. Call it “Islamophobia” if such simplicity eases your ability to make sense out of a complicated world. But a guy sets Jews on fire, throwing Molotov cocktails at them in Boulder, Colorado — and, danged, if his name is not Mohammed. Charlie Hebdo. Taylor Swift. Obama-era workplace violence. Islamophobia? (RELATED: Get Rid of Habiba Soliman)
American boys should not be sent to fight other people’s wars overseas when we do not have a dog in the race or, honestly, a clue...