Okay... I get the sentiment against having our troops STILL deployed in the Middle East and Afghanistan 18 years (Jesus Christ, has it been that long?) after the September 11th attacks and 16 years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The latter of which let us remember was a poorly thought out and planned policy by the previous Republican administration which rent asunder the region, strengthed the hand of Iran, reverberates 'til this day in its massive loss of civilian lives from the chaos unleashed due to incompetence on the part of the Bush/Cheney administration, cost us literally trillions of dollars and is directly the cause of thousands of lost and shattered lives for our sons and daughters in uniform.
Simply put, we never should have been there in the first place, but instead of listening to the various people, experts or just those with common sense, who argued against the war on practical and moral grounds and who predicted to a T how it eventually did turn out, the American people (Let's never forget... It was popular to support the invasion at the start. It wasn't "Bush lied and people died", it was actually "Bush lied and American citizens chose to believe those lies despite evidence and well thought out arguements to the contrary being readily available.") went along with Bush's disasterous decision and supported that for far too long, up to giving him a second term even after it was obvious he and his administration had so terribly botched the execution of their misguided policy.
Even in Afghanistan one can argue that we have accomplished little despite the loss of life on all sides. So I get wanting to disengage from those places. The thing is there are no really good outcomes because the initial decision and following events were so terribly mismanaged. Even Obama, in honoring a treaty with a sovereign nation signed by the W. Bush administration I might add, pullinng active forces out of Iraq found it created problems and helped to further spread the influence of ISIL/ISIS.
The cost of this all has been tremendous, even in ways both nebulous and impactful. American influence and dominance on the world stage has been erroded to levels far, far, far beyond what they were when Bill Clinton left office, and one could easily see how the passions unleashed into our body politic by such reckless actions contributed greatly towards the frayed political nature of current American society.
But this man has shown he is too simplistic to manage an effective wind down of our forces that DOESN'T hand a win to our regional or global adversaries and his actions have done more damage than the pull out of Iraq did in a shorter amount of time, with added bonus of allowing for the mass slaughter of an allied people.
And why? Because this man is a lifetime long incompetent fraud. Listen to that video reading public... He's a moron and con jobber. It's... It's so obvious to so many I just can't fathom a mind that would listen to that meaningless self congratulatory word salad and think "Oh yeah... This guy is a stable genius who knows what he's talking about. His points are so very clear and he is articulating a coherent vision of forein policy."
No. He sounds like an idiot in over his head trying to act as though he's been infallible in every decision he's ever made, which again for those interested in getting out of their Right Wing Reactionary media bubble is easily disproven by using a literal world wide information network at everyone's fingertips to see that he's been failing at just about everything and anything outside of providing a tax policy that favors big business and the wealthy disproportionately, putting unqualified and tempermentally unfit people on the federal bench, including the Supreme Court, starting an uneccessary trade war, and throwing out racist policy and rhetoric on immigration issues to feed to his deplorable base.
Listen to him speak and see, honestly, the aftermath of his policies... this all should be evident. And yet here we are with still enough of our fellow citizens and elected officials willing to allow him to continue on in power.