We're Lobbing Missiles Again

​Address begins around the 10 minute mark.

I'm on the fence here, but tipping to one side. So let's get into this. On one side, I do feel bad about the people killed in the chemical attack. That's my humanitarian side. I don't like watching people get killed, and I want to stop more death. But I have questions. Are we 100% sure about this chemical attack and it's origins? Are we 100% sure lobbing missiles at the plants isn't going to make it worse? 

Now, let me be clear here. I am tipping towards this being an awful idea. This is a joint deal between us and the UK and France. We're knocking heads with Syria and Russia. And we're going after another middle eastern country. Another one. And right now we really need to be pulling our troops completely out of the middle east. 

This is a group of people who have been killing each other since the beginning of time, and our missiles haven't and aren't going to stop this. So at this point, I think our considerations should be less on lobbing missiles and more and yanking our troops completely out of the region, and then pulling our money out as well. If they want to kill each other, fine. But how about we stop financing it? 

Is stepping in to an ongoing battle in the middle east that we of course won't allow our military to actually win worth going to war with Russia over? Because right now, that is, in fact, the risk we are taking. Do we want a war with Russia? Over the middle east? Because no matter what happens between us and Russia, the countries in the middle east are going to spend the next few thousand years trying to kill each other anyway. So is it worth the risk? Is it worth another war? Is it worth having yet another generation of our young men and women killed and maimed? 

And why do we have money to lob missiles at Syria but we don't have the money to build the wall? Or keep our Veterans of past wars off the streets? Or take care of them? What happened to America first? Because I'd like to see America first sometime before I die. And while we spend all this money to lob missiles and risk war with Russia, we could be using that money on America. On our people. On our security. 

​OK, I'm getting off my soap box now. I don't know about you guys, but I am sick of war.