Why weren’t Americans evacuated before the strikes began? ... If you argued that American citizens and partners should never be left behind in a war zone, then launching another conflict before evacuations are complete is not just inconsistent.
Word of those military deaths will reaffirm the visceral fear felt by many Americans of both political hues ever since the disastrous consequences of the country’s ill-fated intervention in Iraq two decades ago.
It’s libertarians who’ve wound up as dupes of the anti-American left ... the Redcoats in the American Revolution. But the point of the American Revolution was to win self-government for Americans.