Non-interventionists, many of whom are Republicans, pointed to the vulnerability of the 40,000 U.S. troops in the region as proof of their point. “If we didn’t have troops in the region, they couldn’t hit us at all,” says Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities think tank. “We’ve given them hostages in the form of our own personnel at these military bases that they can menace. And I think they will.”
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