They figure it's a foreign war and no one can touch them.
But I might go further, and place also foreign wars, of whatever kind, to the same cause.
What foreign war was won by outside military intervention without commitment of land forces?
For many years, the country was simply not ready to accept the defeat, America's first in a foreign war.
Cut the military budget in half and pull out of all foreign wars.
Don't like what happens to men and women who get hurt in foreign wars.
There hasn't been a foreign war on American soil since 1812.
Never again fight a foreign war without a war tax.
For example, "Why do we spend millions on a foreign war and a space program when our schools are falling apart?"
Something, however, is generally withdrawn from this channel in the case of foreign war.