If we're still in Iraq in 2016, nothing any Democrat or progressive supports

[Ken Burch]

will even be possible. War is the enemy of all positive social change and all positive things in life.

We can't have a continuing war in 2016 and still have a race in which there are any meaningful disagreements between the Democrats and Republicans...the funds needed for ANY war are always stolen from the resources needed to fight poverty and inequality, or to give workers higher wages, or to clean up the environment.

Things that don't involve spending...like abortion rights or who gets to marry who...are worthy but minor compared to the things that are needed to be done to make this a just nation. And no one should be blown to bits in some other country just to get a couple of "Democratic" Supreme Court justices.

[840high]

1. Like.

[Gman]

2. Someone needs to tell those that seek to commit genocide

Because we can't sit idly by and do nothing. In principle I agree with you. But someone needs to tell these other people that are causing us to be in wars NOT of our choosing anymore. Had Bush's Iraq war never happened, we would still need to be involved stopping genocide.

[nomorenomore08]

3. So why didn't we stop the genocide in Rwanda? Or Bosnia?

Like it or not, we can't solve all the world's problems, tempting though the thought may be.

[Gman]

4. That's not a reason to sit idly by

Allowing evil to prosper

[nomorenomore08]

5. I understand your point. I'm just not sure that getting caught up in yet another overseas war

is the lesser evil here.