Conservatism Does Not End at America's Shorelines

RealClearPolitics ^ | 6-21-2011 | Thomas Skypek

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Since the end of the Cold War, neo-conservatives have routinely employed two powerful words to criticize traditional conservatives uneasy with their big government approach to international affairs: appeasement and isolationism. On ABC's "This Week," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) employed both words, labeling Republican criticism of the military adventure in Libya as "isolationist" all while making an allusion to the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s ...

[Colonel Kangaroo]

An attempt to serve as the world's policeman is the ultimate big government. A move toward isolationism would be a move in the right direction. Realism is long overdue.

[cripplecreek]

Isolationism is foolish and disastrous but no more or less so than injecting ourselves into wars that don’t have anything to do with us.

In the case of Afghanistan and Iraq, a decade is about 5 years too long and a result of our politically correct warfare methods.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

By isolationism I do not mean burying our head in the sand. But the USA became the world’s superpower by always being the last nation to enter general war, not the first.

[hinckley buzzard]

The whole Libya fiasco is an attempt to establish the legitimacy of the UN telling sovereign nations what to do. They have cooked up this bogus idea of "responsibility to respond" when some bad actor crosses a line somewhere.

That means, if the UN so desires, they can requisition our military to run their errands for them. This time they are using NATO. But the next time it will be blue helmets all around. Obama of course thinks this is just dandy since it attacks and undermines US sovereignty.

[Roninf5-1]

Juan McLame is a vile Globalist meatpuppet. The US military has been fighting around the world since 1941 and what has it gotten us. I look around the country and see it sliding into a Third World pit of deprivation and despotism. Don't give me that crap about we'd been speaking German or Russian if we didn't fight all these wars. First of all this country is invulnerable to an overt foreign military take over and second I don't see much difference between our current regime and that of a Nazi or Communist one. And never mind that fact that both the Nazis and the Soviets wouldn't have lasted one day without mucho dinero from Wall St./City of London financiers.

Wall St. and the Bolshevik Revolution

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy

Wall St. and the Rise of Hitler

[radpolis]

I have learned a valuable lesson over the last 10 years.

The globalists were and are wrong.

The United States can’t even defend its own territorial integrity from foreign criminals and terrorists.

John McCain is the biggest open borders asshat there is.

Illegals are killing, robbing, raping and trafficking in drugs and people in his own state with impunity, and this old gasbag is worried about what is happening abroad.

How can the US control things in countries that despise us when we can’t even control what is happening in our own country?

John McCain needs to get his head out of the liberal utopian clouds and start to focus on what is happening in front of his face.

[Sacajaweau]

Afghanistan and Iraq, I have no problem with because these were the possible collusion forces at the time.

Saddam and Osama would have made the deadliest team. In fact, I'd say Iraq was the bigger danger.

Now the danger has shifted with Pakistan entrenched with Osama's leaders. Will they just vanish or are they being encouraged by Obama's "Let's withdraw".

We all here 1776 this day but it wasn't until 1789 until we had a President. And the British were still in NY until 1797. And more was to come with the war of 1812.

So take a deep breath na think about if we want to go back in 10 years...or finish the job!!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I think NATO itself has outlived its usefulness. At one time it was needed to balance the Soviet Union because there was no other way to do so. Now, European nations get a free ride on the back of the American taxpayer. With the USSR being replaced by a much diminished Russia, the Europeans are quite capable of maintaining their own balance of power.

[HiTech RedNeck]

So out of all this, what are wars abroad which are at least intended to defend interests friendly to the USA (though there’s no really good way to choose between Tyrant A and Tyrant B) supposed to do with blowing the chance to have a wise domestic policy?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The US military has been fighting around the world since 1941 and what has it gotten us

The World War I song says "we wont come back til it's over over there". Well, it's been almost 70 years since we went back over there and it still isn't over. One day we may have to fight a real war for national survival and our nation and military will be exhausted when that time comes because the hyper-globalists have continuously treated the nation's irreplaceable assets as counters in a wargame.

[cripplecreek]

So take a deep breath na think about if we want to go back in 10 years...or finish the job!!

That job should have been finished several years ago.

[bimboeruption]

Pat Buchanan was right.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Simple rule I have decided on:

If John McCain is for it;
I’m again’ it...

[pallis]

Not getting involved in unwinnable wars where nothing more than anti-American, Islamic lunacy will prevail is not isolationism. It is good sense. McCain is, has been, and always will be media hound and halfwit.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Colonel Kangaroo.

Thomas Skypek

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[cradle of freedom]

And just look at how many nasty characters there are in leadership positions all over the globe. Are we going to remove all of the bad guys and replace them with good guys? Where will we find the good guys, how long will they last and what garantee do we have that they won’t go corrupt and become juat as bad as the previous guy.