If you read my post in its entirety, you would realize I am NOT pushing for us to play world police UNTIL we get our financial house in order. We can’t play world police with borrowed money from foreigners.
If, and when, our economy is again prosperous, and our GDP approaches 50% of world GDP, that is when we will be again
in a position to play role of super power. Which means we are
decades away from playing that role.
“If, and when, our economy is again prosperous, and our GDP approaches 50% of world GDP, that is when we will be again
in a position to play role of super power. Which means we are decades away from playing that role.”
boy is that true.
People better start figuring out that it’s no more Mr/Ms nice guy for America. We are broke. If people want to go back to being Thy Brother Keeper, then they better get rid of Democrats FIRST.
Big Government™ that is not enumerated in the Constitution - and that includes abusing the U.S. armed services in the pursuit of being the world's policeman - is NOT conservative.
Irrespective of the state of the U.S. economy, the U.S. should NOT be a global policeman. To do so is to show disrespect for the lives of the men and women in our armed services as well as for the taxpayers who must - at gunpoint - pay for foreign interventions through taxes. To do is to agree with left-wing establishment statists like Wilson and both Roosevelts.
The purpose of the armed services is to provide for a common defense of the United States against enemies foreign and domestic. Not other random people around the world who neither have ties nor bear allegiance to the United States. Got it?