Bill Roggio

And I just hope we don't do that again.

And I just hope we don't do that again.

I fall somewhere in the middle of interventionism and isolationism only because we're really bad at interventionalism, right? So... If we're going to intervene, we need to do it wisely. We need to understand our enemy. We need to understand the limitations of our allies and understand who they are as well and what their goals are.

I fall somewhere in the middle of interventionism and isolationism only because we're really bad at interventionalism, right? So... If we're going to intervene, we need to do it wisely. We need to understand our enemy. We need to understand the limitations of our allies and understand who they are as well and what their goals are.

I fall somewhere in the middle of interventionism and isolationism only because we're really bad at interventionalism, right? So... If we're going to intervene, we need to do it wisely. We need to understand our enemy. We need to understand the limitations of our allies and understand who they are as well and what their goals are.

And we shouldn't get involved like, you know, in retrospect, you know, deposing the Taliban. And then trying to prop up, as you mentioned, promote democracy in Afghanistan. That was a fool's errand. It should have been very clear from the very beginning. We should have had limited goals in Afghanistan. Instead, we had lofty goals. Same thing in Iraq.

And we shouldn't get involved like, you know, in retrospect, you know, deposing the Taliban. And then trying to prop up, as you mentioned, promote democracy in Afghanistan. That was a fool's errand. It should have been very clear from the very beginning. We should have had limited goals in Afghanistan. Instead, we had lofty goals. Same thing in Iraq.

And we shouldn't get involved like, you know, in retrospect, you know, deposing the Taliban. And then trying to prop up, as you mentioned, promote democracy in Afghanistan. That was a fool's errand. It should have been very clear from the very beginning. We should have had limited goals in Afghanistan. Instead, we had lofty goals. Same thing in Iraq.

Same thing in Syria, where we take a terrorist organization, the Turkestan People's Workers Party, which is a foreign terrorist organization responsible for killing tens of thousands of Turks and called on the Syrian Democratic Forces. Or I'm sorry, the Syrian Democratic Forces. There's nothing democratic about a Marxist terrorist organization. But again, it's another perfect case of projection.

Same thing in Syria, where we take a terrorist organization, the Turkestan People's Workers Party, which is a foreign terrorist organization responsible for killing tens of thousands of Turks and called on the Syrian Democratic Forces. Or I'm sorry, the Syrian Democratic Forces. There's nothing democratic about a Marxist terrorist organization. But again, it's another perfect case of projection.

Same thing in Syria, where we take a terrorist organization, the Turkestan People's Workers Party, which is a foreign terrorist organization responsible for killing tens of thousands of Turks and called on the Syrian Democratic Forces. Or I'm sorry, the Syrian Democratic Forces. There's nothing democratic about a Marxist terrorist organization. But again, it's another perfect case of projection.

We need to be very careful. We can't ignore the world. We get things like 9-11 because we pretend that Afghanistan was fine and that Al-Qaeda wasn't a threat.

We need to be very careful. We can't ignore the world. We get things like 9-11 because we pretend that Afghanistan was fine and that Al-Qaeda wasn't a threat.

We need to be very careful. We can't ignore the world. We get things like 9-11 because we pretend that Afghanistan was fine and that Al-Qaeda wasn't a threat.

um but you know again we just have to we need better leadership we need better expertise we need to get rid of the people in the state department in the department of defense that have these you know and it's again this isn't a left and a right issue there's a lot of ideological uh blinders on both sides of the aisle again they're project

um but you know again we just have to we need better leadership we need better expertise we need to get rid of the people in the state department in the department of defense that have these you know and it's again this isn't a left and a right issue there's a lot of ideological uh blinders on both sides of the aisle again they're project

um but you know again we just have to we need better leadership we need better expertise we need to get rid of the people in the state department in the department of defense that have these you know and it's again this isn't a left and a right issue there's a lot of ideological uh blinders on both sides of the aisle again they're project

their values and their vision of the world and in the Middle East and Africa and many places in the world, they do not share our values. And we have to be very careful when we decide to You know, when we when we're going to go into democracy and nation building.

their values and their vision of the world and in the Middle East and Africa and many places in the world, they do not share our values. And we have to be very careful when we decide to You know, when we when we're going to go into democracy and nation building.

their values and their vision of the world and in the Middle East and Africa and many places in the world, they do not share our values. And we have to be very careful when we decide to You know, when we when we're going to go into democracy and nation building.