Due to inaction, improper approach to warfare entirely, and our laid-back philosophy about national security, this nation will eventually be thrown into a war with another nation, perhaps soon.
As you see, Iran is flexing its muscles and will have its ships near our shores, not to speak of China or Russia and other rogue belligerent nations!
Why is this now taking place? Because of the philosophy and political insanity of past leaders and most of the present leadership in Washington.
The fall and serious move away from how war should be conducted and entered into began with our mistake at the end of World War II, when we did not deal with Russia as we should have. Next came our failure to take out North Korea totally and conquer it, and even China if it kept up its attacks along with North Korea.
Now, we engage in slapping hands in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern countries, not willing to conquer the nations and set up a reliable government based on human rights, eliminating the dictatorial social, religious/sectarian nuts who promote war all day long – throughout the history of these nations!
Until we go back to a hard line whereby we enter war only to win and conquer the people and nations, putting them under our total control and setting up a human-rights type of government, we will always be in harm's way for future attacks. The problem will grow larger however, because we have multitudes we have angered as we strike at them, but not enough to destroy their systems and desires to go to war against other peoples!
We can't let men, women and children be the hamstring that keeps us from conquering and taking over a nation when we engage in warfare! Never should that be allowed. Those who do not wish to be harmed by war should leave their nations and escape when there is time, and if not, that is just the results of having to do this surgical removal of evil that exists in these type of peoples and nations. If we don't believe and follow this, then we will eventually have our people slain in the streets because those other nations consider all of us part of the problem.
Check out history and read up on these issues, and you will see why certain nations survived for long periods. They didn't do ase the U.S. does. They really won wars!
Lamar Carnes