Posted on 05/13/2017 11:53:27 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
For the World War II generation there was clarity. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941, united the nation as it had never been before — in the conviction that Japan must be smashed, no matter how long it took or how many lives it cost.
After the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945, however, Americans divided.
Only with the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the fall of China to Mao and Russia's explosion of an atom bomb in 1949, and North Korea's invasion of the South in 1950, did we unite around the proposition that, for our own security, we had to go back to Europe and Asia.
What was called the Cold War consensus — that only America could "contain" Stalin's empire — led to NATO and new U.S. alliances from the Elbe to the East China Sea.
Vietnam, however, shattered that Cold War consensus. The far left of the Democratic Party that had taken us into Vietnam had repudiated the war by 1968, and switched sides to sympathize with such Third World communists as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and the Sandinistas.
Center-right presidents — JFK, Nixon, Reagan — accepted the need to cooperate with dictators who would side with us in fighting Communism. And we did. Park Chung-Hee in Korea. The Shah in Iran. President Diem in Saigon. Gen. Franco in Spain. Somoza in Nicaragua. Gen. Mobuto in the Congo. Gen. Pinochet in Chile. Ferdinand Marcos in Manila. The list goes on.
Under Reagan, the Soviet Empire finally fell apart and the USSR then disintegrated in one of the epochal events of history.
The American Century had ended in America's triumph.
Yet, after 1989, no new national consensus emerged over what ought to be our role in the World. What should we stand for? What should we fight for? What Dean Acheson had said of our cousins in 1962: "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role," was true of us. What was our role in the world, now that the Cold War was history?
George H.W. Bush took us to war to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Soaring to 90 percent approval, he declared America's new role was to construct a New World Order.
Those who opposed him, Bush acidly dismissed in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1991, the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: "We stand here today on the site of a tragedy spawned by isolationism. ... And it is here we must learn — and this time avoid — the dangers of today's isolationism and its ... accomplice, protectionism."
Neither Bush nor his New World Order survived the next November.
Then came payback for our sanctions that had brought death to thousands of Iraqis, and for the U.S. bases we had foolishly planted on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia — Sept. 11, 2001.
George W. Bush reacted by launching the two longest wars in our history, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and announced that our new role was to "end tyranny in our world." The Bush II crusade for global democracy also fizzled out.
Barack Obama tried to extricate us from Afghanistan and Iraq. But he, too, failed, and got us into wars in Yemen and Syria, and then started his own war in Libya, producing yet another failed state.
What does the balance sheet of post-Cold War interventions look like? Since 1991, we have lost our global preeminence, quadrupled our national debt, and gotten ourselves mired in five Mideast wars, with the neocons clamoring for a sixth, with Iran.
With the New World Order and global democracy having been abandoned as America's great goals, what is the new goal of U.S. foreign policy? What is the strategy to achieve it? Does anyone know?
Globalists say we should stand for a "rules-based world order." Not exactly "Remember the Alamo!" or "Remember Pearl Harbor!"
A quarter century after the Cold War, we remain committed to 60-year-old Cold War alliances to defend scores of nations on the other side of the world. Consider some of the places where America collides today with nuclear powers: the DMZ, the Senkakus, Scarborough Shoal, Crimea, the Donbass.
What is vital to us in any of these venues to justify sending an American army to fight, or risking a nuclear war?
We have lost control of our destiny. We have lost the freedom our Founding Fathers implored us to maintain — the freedom to stay out of wars of foreign counties on faraway continents.
Like the British and French empires, the American imperium is not sustainable. We have issued so many war guarantees it is almost assured that we will be dragged into every future great crisis and conflict on the planet.
If we do not review and discard some of these war guarantees, we shall never know peace. Donald Trump once seemed to understand this. Does he still?
(Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)
In these days, America is being used as Satan’s ATM so he can reassemble the Holy Roman Empire. As soon as we are bled completely dry, he will blow on the toothpicks holding up what’s left of our economy and that’s it
The goal since Obama? That’s easy.
To promote and coerce acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle in as many countries as possible. That was the primary foreign policy focus of his administration.
Giving air support to Kurds while they kill off as many jihadists as possible and not putting any men on the ground.
And telling Turkey play ball or you’re out of NATO
As long as USA continues to arm, finance, and protect, our sworn mortal enemies like Iran, those that organize and indoctrinate islamonazi terrorists and infiltrators and sabouteurs like Saudi Arabia, and terrorist murder gangs directly like pa/PLO:/Abbas. —————America will continue losing -—and eventually lose HUGE.
America’s destiny is to turn Mecca and Medina to green glass and to render the Middle East and empty desert.
What’s America’s Goal in the World?....Leave us the fuck alone. Kill off yourselves and we don’t want/ need your shithole real estate. Close enough?
I don’t know America’s goal, but the goal of our elites is maintenance and expansion of an Empire, their control of it, and their own profit.
One of my favorites from long ago by Charlie Putnam.
“The Green Green Glass of Home”.
It is easy. Kill all the bad people and have a slow and relentless march towards world freedom.
“Soaring to 90 percent approval, he (George H.W. Bush) declared America’s new role was to construct a New World Order.”
“With the New World Order and global democracy having been abandoned as America’s great goals, what is the new goal of U.S. foreign policy? What is the strategy to achieve it? Does anyone know?”
“Globalists say we should stand for a “rules-based world order.””
“Like the British and French empires, the American imperium is not sustainable. We have issued so many war guarantees it is almost assured that we will be dragged into every future great crisis and conflict on the planet.”
Next up: North Korea and/or Iran. They don’t follow a “rules-based world order”, but the ‘elite’ Globalists will make sure to change that, at the expense of American lives and treasure. Meanwhile, to ensure that the citizens of the United States becomes more accepting and integrated into a “rules-based world order”, tens of millions of foreigners have been deliberately brought into the nation, most having zero intention of assimilating.
Our goal should not be to function as a dumping ground and welfare haven for the dregs and scum of the failed countries around the world.
But that is what the nation has become under the leadership of the democrats and RINOs.
Exactly. Every American war since the sinking of the Maine has been strategized, and our patriotism used against us.
The Iraq war was nothing more than sending a message to Saddam/others that you don’t try to kill the elite (daddy Bush).
The coming N. Korean dust-up was set in motion in the 1990s. Since I think the Clinton’s want their name associated with the destruction of America, our future may not be pretty.
I kept wondering why everyone had their hair on fire about NK doing pretty much what they've been doing for 60 years. Then, some anonymous libertarian started tweeting that this was all a show to support the US backed candidate in the South Korean election. That as soon as the election ended, so would the "crisis". Sounded a little conspiratorial for me.
Sure enough, have you heard ANYTHING about Korea since the election?
And we have to defang that fat bastard in NK, because that nut-case cannot keep building up a nuclear arsenal. That is a direct threat to national security.
Beyond that worry about the US for a change. Common sense is so long dead that I don't know we can ever get it back, but diversity and empowerment for everyone except whites (including Jews and paradoxically these days, Asian) is not a positive forward path.
When’s that old fascist jew-hater going to die?
That is the creed of every social justice commissar who is, unfortunately, breathing.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3552355/posts
Prior posting, some might likewise, find the comments of interest.
It is easy. Kill all the bad people and have a slow and relentless march towards world freedom.
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May God save us from people like you.
It is easy. Kill all the bad people and have a slow and relentless march towards world freedom.
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May God save us from people like you.
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