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I think, though, that the whole America-taking-a-flaming-sword-in-defense-of-universal-freedom is pretty much a spent force in the face of clear indications on the part of a number of beneficiaries, especially the Iraqis, that freedom isn't all that high on their priority list and is as high as it is only because somebody else is propping it up. That does not argue a particularly interventionist policy.
It would be nice to have a President and Secretary of State who can spell "foreign policy" without having to be spotted the first six letters. Even nicer to have a Secretary of Defense interested in, oh, I don't know, how about defending the country from its enemies? All of this can be accomplished without growing the government; in fact, at least part of the farce that is 0bama's foreign policy is the notion that unlimited power and control - for him - will equate to unlimited success. The disproof of that can no longer be hidden by even the most sycophantic of the media.
Let's not forget in all these breathless aspirations for 2016 that we're going to have to survive the two years between now and then with an administration that couldn't run a Girl Scout bake sale without calling in a SWAT team. Relief is a long way away. We'd better be planning what to do until it arrives.
Do these interventionists propose we permanently occupy every Islamic country we intervene in? Otherwise, how do they intend to deal with Islamists after we leave those countries? Iraq was predictable, and Afghanistan will end up the same way. If we do our nation building in Syria, the same results will occur. As long as we try to save Islam from Islam, we will fail.
As the Ebola show illustrates, Americans love to be terrorized. And that’s the only card in the neocon deck. But it still works! That’s how these girlymen make a living and Rubio is the perfect standard bearer.
Every week there is a new Hitler who is the greatest “existential threat” we’ve ever had! And it fools some of the people all of the time.
Rubio is a perfect ringer for them: an internationalist who is able to babble some conservative-sounding rhetoric when he has to. Kind of like a more suave and slick version of George W. Bush. Maybe Jeb can pick Rubio as his running mate if they won't let him get away with picking George "Viva La Raza" Prescott.
Are they beginning to realize that Jitt Rombush ain’t gonna fly and so now they’re gonna try a younger, more wet behind the ears GOPE?