Who would win such a war between the U.S. and Muslim countries which have a combined population of 1.7 billion? Would it go on with no end in sight? There is no way of predicting the terrible things that could happen. One thing those like Trump should do, before they would ever think about provoking such a world conflict, is to review the history of the use of U.S. force in past decades and see how successful it was.
Documented facts show that the U.S. military was not able to defeat designated enemies in the countries of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, which, at the time that the U.S. initiated war against each of them, had populations of 35, 25 and 21 million people respectively. Would going to war with Muslim nations that have many times more people make any sense at all?
Of course, something must be done to deal with the threat represented by radical Islamic terrorists. However, Mr. Trump needs to back off his current belligerent attitude and stance against Muslims in general, considering them to all be cut out of the same cloth. That kind of faulted thinking will accomplish nothing except getting America embroiled in yet another misguided, unjustifiable war. It's time that he and this government start learning the lessons of the past and stop making the same mistakes again and again.
Michael Payne
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