Bingo!

What was President Clinton’s justification for Operation Desert Fox, then?

I think people forget that President Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox targeting Saddam’s WMD program, which was based on the same Intel source(s) used by President Bush to order the invasion.

I don’t know where you’re pulling my Russia assertion from. All I stated about Russia in this debate, was a reference to Obama/Clinton’s “Russia Reset”, which went to my point about the Obama administration having an unrealistic foreign policy that’s produced lackluster, or downright poor results.

I’m well aware those nations, on their own, cannot defeat China in a hypothetical conflict, and in no way was I inferring that was the case.

One, if you don’t like Tyler’s stories, or the comment sections attached to those stories — feel free to head elsewhere, and pollute their forums with your comments. No one, besides your supervisor at the Putin Troll Factory, cares if you’re here or not.

The Saudi government is rooting for ISIS? The same group who said they’re going to capture Saudi Arabia, behead the royal family, and burn Mecca to-the-ground due to their opposition to religious symbolism?

Anyone rooting for a man that’s spent the last 3 years murdering 300,000 of his own citizens because he refused to step-down after losing support from 83% of the population (Sunni, Kurds, Turkmen), which resulted in huge security vacuums exploited by ISIS; who’s used chemical weapons against his own people; and who’s…

The Administration’s “Asia Pivot”, from a NATSEC standpoint, was another foolishly executed doctrinal change. Besides moving around a few Naval assets here-and-there, the “pivot” has really meant nothing. I think Mr. Obama was banking on TPP to be the largest component of his “pivot”, however, that has yet to come to…

What I’m saying, is there’d be no need for any of the GCC states (including Qatar) to build up their sovereign military forces if the US had continued to maintain its previous security posture— a posture that kept Iran’s proxy-meddling at bay.

First, let me say thank you for debating reasonably, without vitriol, and hyperbole.

I’ve tried to give you many outs, as to recoil from your nonsense position, save face, and move on. But, for some reason you persist.

Yes, I didn’t address it because it wasn’t even remotely close to what we were debating. I challenged your nonsense assertion that any type of public surveillance required a warrant. You came back with some ideological retort about the violations of our freedoms— in no way addressing how that had ANYTHING to do with YO…

Please show me where I took a personal position on any of this.

Read the quote again.

Nonsense.

The police don’t need a warrant to sit outside your house in a car to surveil you, or follow you 24/7, either.

This increased Sunni/Shi’a conflict is the direct result of President Obama’s poorly thought out security doctrine change from proactive, to reactive/indifferent.

First, I’d hardly consider the F-15 “top end arms”. It’s a very effective fighter, but it’s nowhere near the “top end” of military hardware coming out of the US, nor would the fighters really shift the strategic balance much.

The Sunni/Shi’a conflict has been going on since the 8th Century. This notion that we’ve “fueled” it, or even made it worse with our ME policies of the last 35 years— patently ignores the history of the region over the last 1,300 years. Our actions have only have affected 2.6% of the total history of the ME sectarian…