"It would be smart of us to realize that when the reasoning changes week to week, it’s usually because the reasoning hasn’t actually been done at all.

The last time we assembled this kind of force in the Middle East, Americans were assured it would be swift and decisive. Two decades, trillions of dollars, thousands upon thousands of lives and limbs lost, and families shattered forever later, we know how that story ended.

No thanks. I’ve seen this one before."