I would think it a responsibility of our government to rescue its citizens, who are legitimately in another country, from harms way; not unlike rescuing citizens from any other situation. Key word: rescue.

Our troops rescued the students, brought them home and did not go back to nation build…at least as far as I know.

Accomplished many things, many bad.

It WOULD save lives and money and would quite possibly be a good thing to stop, but they aren’t actually illegal if authorized by Congress. Korea was us defending our people who were there at the time when the country was invaded. Surely you don’t fault people for shooting back? (We were in Korea following our defeat of the Japanese and administering it prior to handing it over to its civilian government which we needed to set up so we could get out.)

Bay of Pigs WAS illegal but Kennedy dropped out before Americans were killed.

Vietnam was authorized by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, reauthorized with each funding request.

As best I can recall Reagan’s invasion of Granada WAS illegal and I’m pretty sure our invasion of Panama was, but those weren’t extremely expensive in lives or money.

Our involvement in Somalia wasn’t intended to be making war, rather to feed the starving until President Clinton decided to change it into a nation building action at which point the war lords attacked and we turned tail and ran.

Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan were authorized by the United States Senate. Some other actions were in keeping with treaty commitments. Again, those were approved by the Senate and, thus, legal.

Not doing all these things would be nice but the actions were usually legal.

By the way, if Congress ever feels the President has begun a war illegally, they can–and should–impeach him. When they don’t, that also gives him approval.

David considering conflicts

And I see you are still singing the praises of a man whose company was fined 1.7 Billion dollars for defrauding Medicare of our tax dollars. If that’s your idea of capitalism, then, yep, I’m a Socialist.

I happen to like Sarah Palin. She is from my home state, Alaska. And she’s the best stand up comic since Johnny Carson retired.

But then, I was educated before there was a Department of Education.

The bottom line is that this canard of spending billions of our tax dollars for a “high speed rail” is rejected by our Govenor.

That’s a great decision.

It sure irks Liberals though.

Just like Sarah Palin does. lol

BTW – the only thing “high speed” about this project is the wasting of our tax money on something both unproductive and a guaranteed money loser. Not to mention all the money that would be siphoned off by the wretched bottom feeders, I mean “lawyers”.

More’s the pity. Some of these folks are good people they just believe and repeat the lies they hear. I see people posting who holler “love your brother” on Sunday morning saying to heck with ‘em the rest of the week.

Rick Scott’s company was fined 1.7 Billion dollars for defrauding the government yet Florida elected him. These folks think by denying or ignoring that fact it never happened.the people who cry about spending apparently think it is fine to defraud the taxpayers as long as it “benefits business”.

I must say that it would be an interesting experiment to have people pay for their own parent’s illnesses or nursing home stays. Let’s bring granny and Pawpaw home to live and see how many Little Johnnies and Little Susies want to cut Medicaid then.

Let’s pull out of these oil wars and that will save us a bundle. It wouldn’t solve our budget shortfall but it would put us on the way. Gas for 5 dollars a gallon? We will never confront the issue until it is at least that high.

Medicare has to be cut WAY back if not eliminated. This alone would lower health cars costs when the huge pool of government money has dried up. Same with Medicaid and the hugs money we spend on the military

We could cut everything else but the three programs would still have us over a barrel along with the interest for the national debt.

Hard choices? Yes but they must be made if we are to survive. Families are going to have to return to helping their elderly or sick loved ones and stop waiting for the government to do it.

Medicare and Medicaid are nothing but Socialism at work.