Again, wrong. You are embracing the failed model of the Korean and Vietnam War where we fight up to a borderline. This is not how the USA fought the Confederacy!
Again World War II is a successful model to follow. We fought them over there, which is better than fighting them over here.
Israel is following the succcessful World War II model. They are not stopping at the Gaza border but annihiliating any and all Hamas anywhere in the world. I fully support Israel and their approach to defending the sovereign right to exist, their right to defend themselves. They did not start this war but they will end it with the same moral clarity we had in World War II - absolute victory.
Farce? What makes it a farce in your estimation?
Maybe brush up on a little history. We should never have been involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The US Civil war was wholly American, on our soil and for a worthy cause. That's the only kind of battle worth waging.
World War 2, we became involved when we were attacked. You might be familiar with Pearl Harbor? Japan breached our borders.
Compare to our 9-11. The Persian Gulf War was fought over there, so we didn't have to fight them over here. 1990-ish. Saddam Hussein crossed the border into Kuwait, so of course-- America had to intervene. We bombed the hell out of 'em and they tucked tail and ran home. Kuwait was liberated. Absolute victory.
Except by 2001, folks over there in that region didn't like America very much. This hatred manifested on September 11, 2001 so in 2003, we launched the Iraq War to eradicate Islamic terrorism over there, so we wouldn't have to fight it over here. We were determined to destroy all their weapons of mass destruction. We were determined to eliminate Saddam Hussein. It was the perfect pretense for what has now evolved into the never-ending Global War on Terror that has eroded so many of our freedoms here. Here. We might have won over there, but we lost over here.
But hey-- lots of Americans got really rich rebuilding what we destroyed. And now we are so loved by all.
That's what a farce is. But rather than comedic, it's tragic. Let's do Russia and Ukraine-- hurray! Put Taiwan and China on your calendar! Whoopee! Did we do Iran yet? Let's do Iran!
We would have been far better off fighting Communism and radical Islam here-- at OUR borders, inside OUR universities. We laid down our arms. We dozed off at our posts. We left the welcome mat on the doorstep and we were infiltrated primarily by refugees from all these foreign wars, many of whom now operate against us from within our government and institutions. Now we have to fight them over here because we fought them over there.