Posted on 06/23/2016 12:26:28 AM PDT by vannrox
Ending the empire is the keystone to restoring liberty in the United States.
Black Racists For Trump!
Maybe a Country that has amassed more Debt than every other Nation on the Earth combined should dial back the Empire Building Business and just crush Evil when it erupts with overwhelming Firepower.
Talk about a “Big Tent”! This is not the only Lefty coming around to join the Trump Train! See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3442814/posts
And remember, when America is totally out of the picture, peace and tranquility reign supreme. Just ask the Hutus, Tutsi, Ethiopians, Serbians, Uighers, etc. When we are not there, there lives are enriched by their tribal experiences.
Yeah.
Boilerplate commie carp.
And so...what do you propose? Do you think it’s our job to fix the world for everyone else? If people are enriched by tribal experiences, it’s no business of mine so long as it doesn’t directly threaten American safety and security. By directly, I mean exactly that. It’s time to eliminate the “expeditionary” nature of the modern US military and return to walking softly while carrying a BIG stick.
The point is that the same people who scream about American intervention were the ones hammering the USA when all these incidents occurred. They were asking why we weren’t doing anything about those incidents.
The reason we are currently in so many places is that those issues did start to affect the United States. Germany and Japan were incredibly warlike countries and our presence there eventually changed those countries. The Soviet Union was aggressive and our presence in Europe forestalled them. Iraq was paying to train terrorists and was taking potshots at our planes in flight.
We have reasons to be where we are. And our absence would have an incredibly horrible affect on our ability to trade around the world. The world would truly be in a meat grinder if we were not the policeman on the corner. And our economy would suffer.
Since the end of the cold war, I have, in a way, been sympathetic to a help Israel, but, F the rest of them attitude. Maybe help UK in a situation like today’s vote...
Read to know your enemies.
I couldn't care less.
One of the things that never gets much attention -- and deliberately so -- is that all of the countries we allegedly "set free" with these military campaigns ends up using the U.S. dollar as a trading currency with us.
This is the reason why the U.S. backs radical Islamic elements in places like Kosovo, Iraq and Syria over stable dictators who primarily conduct business with western European trading partners and the Russians.
Do you think it's any coincidence that you're seeing these little announcements in the news about Boeing's new contracts to sell new aircraft to Iran?
Foreign policy doesn’t fit into left and right anymore. That’s why you have self-appointed “real conservatives” agreeing with fellow globalists like Hillary more than a nationalist like Trump.
Personally I would be in favor of most of that. Way back in time right after WWII “somebody’ was convinced that since the U.S. was the sole remaining power that had not suffered War on it’s soil that we had an ‘obligation’ to be the world’s policeman.
And look what that has done for us? Near constant war ‘somewhere’ on the planet that we have stuck our nose, (people and treasure), into. Death and destruction of our people and our ‘treasure’, paying tribute to nearly every country in the guise of ‘foreign aid’ and what do we have to show for it?
A bankrupt nation with out capital, intellectual knowledge and yes... Jobs, having fled or been stolen. Enough is enough, it’s time to say No More. So call me an isolationist, that word just rolls off of my back now. I’m an old man who’s traveled the world and worked for and with the U.S. Government. I know what I’ve seen and what I’ve experienced and it’s time, long past time, to stop the bleeding of our people in the armed services and destruction of our nation.
Trump’s problem with most US military ‘adventures’ is that he has trouble understanding how they are in the interest of the United States. Consider our ‘adventures’ since Reagan took office:
1) Granada (Reagan): Stopped Cuba/Soviet expansion in its tracks, and saved Granada (also gave our side a nice airport with a 10,000 foot runway). This one made perfect sense.
2) Panama (Bush-41): Hard to see what this accomplished - got rid of a guy we didn’t like. We should have taken back the Canal Zone at the time.
3) Kuwait/Iraq (Bush-41): Iraq was a real threat and proved it - but we should have marched in Bagdad and taken out Saddam at the time.
4) Somalia (Bush-41): Why?
5) Bosnia (Clinton): Why?
6) Kosovo (Clinton): Why?
7) Afghanistan/Iraq Nation Building (Bush/Obama): Why?
8) Syria: Why?
Notice any pattern lately?
There is no American empire and Trump is happy to provide defense if the countries pay
Doublespeak and Gobbletygoop. Obama class intellect.
How much of us should we sacrifice to mend the un-mendable ills of the world? How many places have we "helped" with blood and money that have become Democracies/republics and that don't despise us?
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