We Could Use Some Founding Fathers Again.

       Well, okay. The President has stated he will escalate the bombing of ISIS (ISIL-IS) into Syria. I think that's probably necessary and as long as he's able to pull together support from European and Middle Eastern countries to go along with him, so be it. I even think most of the country is with him. Even Congress is talking as though they agree. But this will be a long endeavor and there's no good reason to believe it won't escalate at some point.
       But there's one point nobody's been willing to talk about or perhaps hasn't even thought about. How do we pay for this escalation and future escalations? We fought the Afghan and Iraq wars without paying for them and we've suffered for those mistakes. So, will Congress now allow for the funding of this new undertaking by putting the costs on our charge card or will they actually propose a payment plan?
       Every war America has embarked upon until the Afghan and Iraq wars were paid for through increased taxes or some other means other than charging it to future generations in the form of foreign debt. And after every other war, we came out the other end of that war stronger. Oh we had debt beyond the end of those wars, but we continued payment plans until the debts were paid.
       My question now is; do we continue on the new path set by President Bush of not paying for nor providing a plan to pay for a war, or do we revert back to a proven formula of paying as we go? If I had a vote, I'd want to know that this new effort wouldn't place us in the kind of financial disadvantage we found ourselves in since the A & I wars. Come to think of it, those two wars never really ended did they?
       There will be those who will blame this new confrontation on our leaving Iraq. But unless there was a decision to remain there until the end of time, there was always the probability that the conflict would continue after we were gone. It still comes down to the fact that America has no idea how to build a stable nation. Our founding fathers figured out how to do that, but they've all passed away. No one has ever taken their place.