Billy wrote:

Look, if we want to take it to them, we can do it from 30,000 feet or
sin hundred miles away. We can make them pay. Boots on the ground is
for oil and the military-industrial complex.

Oil is a perfectly good reason for going to war. That's why Japan attacked
the U.S., oil is why Hitler invaded Russia. Oil was the main reason Sadaam
tried to take over Kuwait.

The fact that all those folks lost shouldn't validate the idea.