Why haven't we seen a Democrat making an argument like this (or have I missed it)
Let's pull the troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, Korea and Japan back to the USA. Instead of building bases in Iraq to "fight them there" let us build bases on our Southern border to "stop them there".
We haven't been able to get Osama bin Laden because he is hiding in Pakistan with the Taliban. To go after him would mean invading a sovereign nation (with nuclear weapons) which we can't do. Yet the Pakistanis can't get him either because, simply put, they aren't really sovereign over their western border with Afghanistan.
BUT, can we really complain about Pakistan? Millions of undocumented immigrants have entered our country illegally over the years. We are no more sovereign over our borders than is Pakistan. Terrorists can walk into our nation at will to do us harm. And, right now, we can't stop them. This is why, if I am elected president, we will bring our overseas troops home and put them on the border defending America.
Assuming we end the war, we need to make sure the Rethugs don't start another.
I fear that we may end up with a deal like we got in 2000. Here Clinton balanced the budget and even produced a surplus, and then Bush comes in and pisses it all away. Suppose we get a Democratic president and she/he finds a way to get us out of Iraq and generally repair some of the damage the Republicans wrought (like Clinton did) and another Republican gets elected and we have another fucking war.
Maybe we need to give our military a job that the GOP rank and file support (even if their leadership does not). With the troops tied up, it would be impossible to start another Republican war "with the army we have". Trying to increase the Army (e.g. a draft) won't play any better in the future than it does now.
So is this a good idea? What do other Kossacks think?