And we don’t have allies? Why can’t the Japanese and Europeans help us? Why would the Russians and Chinese make war with us? We buy all of China’s garbage, they’d be nowhere without us, and they know it. We had a really small military before WWII, and we didn’t get overrun. We turned out fine. Why do we need to continue spending half of the globe’s defense budget. I repeat: The entire rest of the world spends as much we do when you combine all of their defense budgets.
A good chunk of the the rest of the world’s defense budgets lie in allied countries as well. Much of our Asian problem lies in the fact we still refuse to make Japan defend itself, despite the fact it is perfectly capable of doing so and shows zero sign of wanting to use that power to go on another quest for empire. Why can’t we let other countries deal with problems where they are in the world? Why is it the mission of the U.S. military to be everywhere? When did Congress get to vote on this being the mission of the United States military?
Nobody said we should be everywhere. We should be in places to defend OUR interests.
We need to be in other countries, so we can fight them “over there”, rather than wait until we have to fight them over here — I think that’s another Rumsfeld statement more or less.
Do you think we should just sit here and wait until Iran and N Korea nuke us?