The author was right: I did not.<p>I do not want to read another article by someone who thinks the Iraq war was about terrorism, and who seems to have potato levels of knowledge about international politics.<p>&gt;  and now in Syria, before in Libya, and only created more failed states and ungoverned spaces that provide havens for terrorists and spilled terror like dropped paint across borders.<p>Yeah, no, that isn&#x27;t at all what happened. The US didn&#x27;t create Syria or Libya. They&#x27;re both civil wars that started organically (see &quot;Arab Spring&quot;); the US (and UK, et al) tried to fund certain factions after the conflicts kicked off, but they didn&#x27;t initiate it.<p>While I agree with the overall thrust that we shouldn&#x27;t sacrifice freedom for security, this whole article reads like a YouTube comment (meaning: uninformed, of low quality, making emotional but vapid arguments).