[don-o]

You make some fine points.

fwiw, I am doing some rethinking about my country’s role as cops of the world.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Sorry if I come off testy about it all, but there's no way this moronic Boy King gets a pass or the benefit of low expectations on this one from me.

He's inept, he's reckless, and worst of all he's hazardous to our liberty (and that of a nation who, while we despise their govt. , we've been leading its people to believe we'll support when the chips fall for over a quater of a century).

I guarantee there are Agency people there right now screaming "WFT" about his lack of anything (if they are even still alive).

Christ, let someone on any college campus in America even hear about a noose, and they go nuts. These "people" are hanging their own young people in the streets by the dozen, for God's sake!!

[conservativeharleyguy]

No one ever becomes a “policeman” because it’s easy. Solzhenitsyn said he’d “rather see America as the world’s policeman than the Soviets as the world’s jailer”. I always try to remember that principle when the “world’s policeman” issue arises. It’s a legitimate concern, but we’ve had to do before, we are doing it now, and we will most assuredly do it again. There’s nowhere else to go. There are three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. Someone has to keep the wolves at bay. We’re the sheepdog.