The real lessons that all of you should have adsorbed by now are that:
1. Even our best friends can't be trusted with defending our country - in fact, they'd all like to come here and take our stuff.
2. Being conquered by other countries would suck.
3. Fighting our adversaries should always take place THERE instead of HERE - before they become too strong to beat.
I'm going to throw out a strong guess that at least Leaning Right and Central VA have never graced this country with combat service - am I right? Otherwise, you'd know better than push the paleo-isolationist crap.
Uh...Uh the entire hemisphere was subjugated started in the 1400's by countries with navies and the will to invade the "new world".
> Uh - geopolitics isn’t your strong suit, right? <
Free Republic is a great place to converse, and maybe to even learn a new thing or two. But Chainmail, when you start a post with an insult, I tend to disregard everything else.
However, I’m just a dumb ol’ Hunky from a decaying mill town. So I don’t know much. So forgive me, Chainmail, if I let your insults cloud my judgement.
Shrink the Army, grow the BP and grow the Navy. The Army is useless.