But look at the real results of our actions.
By any measure you can use, america is a weaker nation than she was 50 years ago. Militarliy, economicaly and especially socially. We have been on a half century slide because of our federal government taking more of our liberty and in engaing in more conflicts around the globe.
Our national capital, both material and human, has been bled away for no tangible results. We are a confused nation beset on all sides and from the inside. Ii can’t see how more engagement on the worls scene can help us. I can’t see how spending more teasure and more lives on the protection of people who hate us can make us stronger.
Now on your points.
Our resources in saudi arabia are far from minimal whe you count the air bases, army bases as well as naval forces in both gulfs. Add in our huge presence in the uae, quatar, and kuwait and you have an enomous military force used to protect a resource (oil) wich is in abaundance in our own borders and that of our closest ally canada.
And as to south korea, please read about the several sinkings of naval vessles over the years, sniper activity on the dmz, artillery shellings, sub launched special forces and extensive tunnel networks. Not to mention industrial and political espionage. I’m sure that like me you might know an army or marine vet that served in sk. Ask them how much of the nork activity is actually reported.
China is able to fuel her massive military buildup with what? American dollars. If we were to repair our industrial base with regulatory reform as dr. Paul reccomends we would stop the hemoraging of dollars in our trade deficit with china. Her economy would collapse and the so called chinese threat would diminish.
Sorry, Ron Paul will not fix any of that. Indeed his idea of retreating from the world stage will have the opposite effect. We still have a reasonable amount of respect despite the leftist with their friends such as OWS and Code Pink (both supporting the idea of Ron Paul)have done.
On the rest I stand on what I said.
PS, I know all I want to know about SK/NK thanks, SK is free despite the skirmished and they have not been “relentless”, indeed the past few years have been the first real up tick in decades.