Globalism and the Death of Defense

American Thinker ^ | September 16, 2016 | Chet Richards

[Kaslin]

"If you want peace, prepare for war." Nearly seventeen hundred years ago, the historian Vegetius gave that advice to the Roman emperor. Good advice, as true today as it was then.

Time was when America's overwhelming military and industrial strength kept the peace. But now deliberate American weakness is embroiling us in a multitude of rarely reported hot skirmishes around the globe. Good soldiers are dying, but you almost never hear about them. This, while hard earned combat victories in Iraq and Afghanistan (and earlier in Viet Nam) have evaporated through premature withdrawal.

Current intellectual fashion has it that, rather than military strength, the international network of trade among the Great Powers will forever keep the peace. History says otherwise. In June 1914, Germany and Britain were each other's principal trading partners. In September they were slaughtering each other. Over the course of history, instant change from peaceful trading to total war has happened a multitude of times.

Globalism – an ideology that has two major strains. On the libertarian track are those who naively believe that free trade will always bring prosperity and peace. On the totalitarian track are those who equally naively believe that nations are obsolete and that the future belongs to those who have escaped into the coercive "one world" to come. Epitomizing the one-world believers are the fascist bureaucrats of the European Union and their American Chamber of Commerce counterparts.

[BuffaloJack]

I hope our next president (Trump) will restore our military to levels conducive to keeping the USA strong and secure.

[SaraJohnson]

There are so many destructive aspects of the ideology of globalism, intellectuals outside the globalist circles have failed mightily to analyze and debate it. It is not just “free trade.” There are economic, political and social engineering aspects that have been totally ignored by intellectuals out of fear of being labeled a “nationalist.”