Reply To: Comedian in Chief

Phil -“18 hostages dying in the US embassy in Iran after the Shah fall vs approximately 2,500 US service members deaths, 3,900 US contractors deaths, 1,144 other allied service deaths, approximately 50,000 Afghan civilian, national military and police deaths and 440 aid workers deaths in Afghanistan during the 20 year war. So which is worse?
Cost of the mission during the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Iran were two helicopters vs the cost of the 20 year Afghan war which costed 1 trillion dollars which will balloon with interest to over 3 trillions dollars.
So, yes, the Afghanistan war was way, way worse than the Iran debacle.”

You’re comparing the Failures with Iran to Afghanistan.
It isn’t Comparable!
No one knows what would have happened if we didn’t go into Afghanistan!

You have to learn from History.
You’re promoting that the US should be Isolationists.
You’re not the first one.
Many people here believed that, especially before WW1 and WW2.

How many millions of Jews would have been Saved if the US would have involved themselves in WW2, two years before they actually did?!?

From the Holocaust Enclopedia:
“The America First Committee and other Non-Interventionist Groups
Numerous groups advocated against American involvement in World War II. Some, like the National Council for the Prevention of War (founded in 1921 to promote neutrality) and Keep America Out of War Congress (founded in 1938 to oppose Roosevelt’s foreign policy), predated the war. Others united multiple constituencies after the war began to lobby more effectively. Mothers who did not wish to send their sons to war, Americans of German or Italian descent, Americans of Irish descent (who opposed helping Great Britain), socialists, students, pacifists, and a host of prominent businessmen, intellectuals, and average citizens took action to prevent US intervention. Though more Republicans than Democrats advocated non-intervention, these groups were not split along partisan lines. Many antiwar advocates did not appreciate the term “isolationist” commonly used to describe them. They often argued for a strong national defense and broad economic spheres of influence, even as they tried to persuade felt the United States to stay out of war.”