But if we don’t go in, unspecified terrible things will happen to us later: “We may not be directly imminently threatened by what’s taking place in a Kosovo or a Syria or a Rwanda in the short-term but our long-term national security will be impacted in a profound way and our humanity’s impacted in a profound way.”
The possibility that our “long-term national security will be impacted in a profound way and our humanity’s impacted in a profound way” if we go in was not discussed.