Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Whether you are for the wars or against
the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what
we have really gotten for all of that money. In Libya, we have actually
helped al-Qaeda forces that were shooting at U.S. soldiers in Iraq and
Afghanistan take over the country. Now they have announced that they
will be imposing strict Sharia law on all of Libya. After 10 years of
having our boys shot up in Afghanistan, the Afghan government is so
"grateful" that they are publicly saying that they will side with
Pakistan in any future war against the United States. In Iraq, Islamic
radicals are beheading and murdering dozens and dozens of Christians and
the new Iraqi government seemingly can't wait to push the remaining
U.S. soldiers out of the country. We ran up well over a trillion
dollars of new debt to "liberate" these countries, but are they really
in better shape than they were before these wars? Are we really in
better shape than we were before these wars?
Today, the United States military has at least one base in more than half of all the nations on the planet.