America is on the path to Global Domination
Oh no. America's on the path to eventual collapse from debt, from chasing around every scary little angry goatherder "threat" across the entire planet.
We are never going to come out with any positive from all this crap. Only people that are going to get benefit from this junk are a few contractors and defense firms, and the politicians that know exactly when and where to invest due to it. The rest of use are screwed with the tab.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't even enough oil value in those places to recoup our losses, if it would all float right out of the ground and flew itself no charge to a Mississippi refinery.
It's got jack all to do with macroeconomics, stable trade or american economic interests.
All this "global economy", "american special role", defending democracy, wmd's, wmd armsraces, radicalism, stable international trade crap, and every other thrown-out argument is just bathering over a thin penny worth of substance while ignoring the trillions-debt pound.
We'll burn ourselves out long before any global domination, and only the few will come out in the black from it all. There won't be and domination at all. More like stagnation.
In a way, I suppose Rubio is right. We probably should prepare for he has planned. Seeing how situations aren't changing as fast as we'd all like to see.