I’m sure to get some very negative comments about this but here goes...
America’s leaders made some very good as well as poor decisions following World War II. It was a good thing to help rebuild what was destroyed in Europe and Asia. We should have just settled for repayment on those efforts.
It was a bad thing to think we could impose ‘Pax Americana’ on the world. Not so much because it was a bad idea but because our form of government doesn’t have a good record or even means to have a consistent policy from Administration to Administration, be it foreign or domestic. We just change our political leadership way too often for that to occur.
That means in the long run we should have encouraged change we could live with and approve rather than try impose our own ways of doing things on nations around the globe. As we all know now it just backfired on us instead of creating friends and commonality among the nations of the world, all we have done is breed enemies who want nothing more than to make us ‘suffer’ for our ‘crimes’ as a nation.
I don’t see anyone mark mentions wanting us to suffer
Just the libs who run our university/government/academic group The chamber of C is just along for the ride along with its group the GOPe
What we gave to Germany to rebuild was a drop in the bucket compared with the bill BO has run up
They don’t hate us, anyway
Radical islam? If wed just stop hating the idea of family, stop taxing the crap out of everyone to the point of driving everyone out of the house, to the workplace and stop worshipping birth control, we could ... And stop send our kids to the government schools run by psychopathic socialists, then we could defend our borders and live in peace
Check the cdc figures. We eliminate far more Americans per year than the 1.5 million by abortion, with birth control
Population problem? What about the tens of millions of Mexicans living here illegally? We allow the chamber of cheap labor to dictate which tens of millions more people are allowed here
It's the attempts to impose this on other cultures, which cannot adjust their culture to our way of thinking.
It's notable that the mindset of nations we've attempted this with believes ,still, that whoever “wins” has his way.....compromising...give and take is not in their mindset at all. Rather compromise is seen as weakness by many where they understand strength is most significant over all.
Ukraine is a good example as their politicians have yet to understand what democracy is.....thus their Parliament ends up in fist fights all the time. I'll also say that is why it's impossible for Obama to compromise or get Congress to work together....he has the winner takes all mindset that he is King and Congress is suppose to support him.
I agree about not "imposing" our own ways, but I have to hesitate as well, because, of course, the rest of the nations around the globe tend to have "ways of doing things" which invariably mean little or no freedom for their people.
Consequently, America's prosperity, opportunity, and military power often engender misplaced jealousy, demonization, and even hysterical fear in other nations and their peoples.
Regardless, it's obvious to me that when Freedom doesn't flourish around the world, problems will arise which eventually impact America.
It seems like we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't, but it's certainly true that the world's peoples' profound need for freedom, opportunity, and security cannot be met simply by depending on the American "umbrella".
The people of the world are going to have to step up, each in their respective countries, see to their OWN security, and eventually seize the Freedom and Opportunity which Americans take for granted as their birthright.
Change we can live with? We still need that here in America, and God knows the rest of the world has a lot of catching up to do. America is an imperfect beacon of light on a distant hill, but it still outshines all others.