Nevermind Ramadi.

I'd like to see us retake the South and West Sides of Chicago.

Doesn't it make more sense to fight our gang wars here at home, rather than sticking our nose into other people's ethnic civil wars?

I mean, it's not our business, and the more we spend to allegedly democratize the Middle East to protect our ally, the more China invests in its future.

Consider:  if we went to war now, which country has the greater capacity to churn out the weapons of war that helped us win WWII?  We no longer have the factories here to convert.  China does.

The more we continue assassinating other people's leaders and families with drones, the more we risk having that done to our own leaders, when other stronger countries think they are helping to remove our leaders from power who are overseeing the deaths of hundreds of their own people annually.

As much as I might dislike Rahm Emanuel and think him unsuited for the job, I would not want to see him and his family taken out at night by a drone hit on his personal residence.  Do unto others and all.

(If you've seen the move FailSafe, you understand how things might look different if the shoe is on the other foot.  America is not going to be the world's strongest military power for much longer at the rate we're investing in our people domestically -- we don't have the wherewithal nor the physical health/strength and our money is rapidly being spent out in the Middle East... you'd think we'd be setting better examples now of how we expected the Big Guys to treat the little guys, once we realize we can't artificially dominate the world forever.)