When did Congress declare war? Did you ever stop and think that maybe the reason those people over there hate us so much is because we keep doing things like this? For every person we kill, we radicalize just as many. Every bomb we drop, every drone strike we make...all if it does nothing to stop the ideology from spreading and only inflames it further. IMO - our hawkish approach to the Middle East is going to be our downfall, ultimately. Just like it was for every other Great Civilization that has come before us be it the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Mongols, the Ottomans, the British, the Soviets, us...it's supremely arrogant of us to think we will succeed where so many other great powers have failed. We should have nothing to do with that part of the world. It's all tribal over there, and we are outsiders. Because we're outsiders, it galvanizes all of them against us to drive us out so they can continue their millennia-long tribalist conflicts.
