Its just fearmongering

We should care because they are other humans, but, on top of that it will eventually come back to effect us. It's not as if the whole world destabilizes, or half of the world, even just 1/10th, that it won't effect us

You have me confused. I am not saying "should' I am answering 'why'. From a national interest perspective there is a good argument to leave and let them kill each other. The only problem with that is that it leaves Russia in charge of Europe (if they want to keep the lights on).

There is a good chance of the various wars spreading

Just look at say, the immigration crisis in Europe, that has been pretty bad, and that's not even the spread of war itself

The consequences won't be confined to a specific geographic space just beucase the problems originate from there

There's no reason to believe they will just stay there and not go other places, be it to wage war or otherwise

1. I dnt care because they are savages. Hardly human. 2. I do not buy that it will effect us if we leave. Its effecting us by us staying

It's not very expensive to maintain a small troop presence, or costly in terms of lives

We didn't lose a single soldier the whole time they were in that region, but now if we have to do a reinvasion to keep a lid on things we will

Also letting Russia pull strings over europe cant be any worse then what the EU is up to.

We did lose a few soldiers in some anti ISIS stuff though

We lost our hard earned tax dollars

Not really that particular region but it's connected

millions

you act as if them standing around is free dude

It's not all that expensive to maintain it

What we need is for more troops to be on our southern border

In comparison to a larger war. But generally speaking military spending has a net positive impact on the economy

Yes the problems will spread. However we do not give a fuck. Because our borders are; Mexico, Canada, fish, and fish.

We can spend 6 trillion in the middle east in a span of 6 years dude.

Let's say Europe falls right, that will effect us, so then we are by proxy effected by that

yet we cant build a 25 billion dollar wall

that has nothing to do with the middle east obviously

It's all political

The left won't fund the law, as you need more votes to fund a law but not neccessarily to pass a law

Just goes to show you what our politicians priorities are.

It's a political tactic

Well it's the left

And making excuses for us to keep spending money over there... doesnt help.

But if we pull out of the middle east it's not as if hteir minds will change on the border

They will still not want to fund it

Imports are 12-15% of USGDP (depending on how you measure it) 2/3rds of that are in N. America. If Europe falls it would be a smaller hit than the mortgage crisis.

My idea has always been like some form of external funding like, some group builds it saying they'll build the whole wall for 1 dollar, but that company just builds it no matter what the price will be

6 trillion dollars in the middle east, sorry but I think its time we start reprioritizing.

Exports are really the issue, we make a lot of money by selling stuff to the rest of the world

The israelis have tons of money from us and arms. They can handle the region if they so choose

Our largest export is machinery and pumps ie. capital goods.

Same with europe. We are involved in NATO. If anything goes down we will show up to save their asses... dont you worry

in the meantime...

We need to focus on our homeland