Its your fantasy but the reality is that we live in a more weakened world of feminized policy that backs away from tough military action.
And don’t forget the UN and international law. The United States backing of Israel will be needed to protect them there.
We don’t fight World War II’s anymore, that’s why our troops fight and die the way they do in Afghanistan, the 21st Century Vietnam with lower casualty rates.
Pakistan should get the “parking lot” treatment or at least have its top intelligence leaders taken out for supporting Bin Laden and the Taliban.
Any military action against Iran will be very surgical and limited but would have to include its military assets for air defense at least plus nuclear installations.
Our policies are not being "feminized" but rather tied down like Gulliver by what are anti-American influences at home and abroad. I fail to understand why it was respectable (as most certainly it was) to go all in to destroy Hitler and the Third Reich and Tojo's essentially fascist rule in Japan but that we should not touch the hair of any communist's head and should now genuflect before the Islamo-Fascist menace that is Ahmanutjob and the Mullahocracy in Iran.
I don't like feminism any more than anyone else here but Code Pink, however female it public face, is not about feminism but about anti-Americanism. Suppose that Hillary Clinton (Medusa herself) had a sudden and unexpected turn toward patriotism and that she got to make the military decisions. Would any Islamofascist dictator who got in her way have much life expectancy???
International Law???? This nation is a sovereign nation governed by the US Constitution. To the extent that any treaty says otherwise (including GATT, NAFTA and their evil progeny), abrogate the treaty unilaterally or otherwise as improvidently entered, approve no further treaties sapping our sovereignty, and inform the world once and for all that the State Department is not theirs any more and that we have gone our own way. Imagine an Audie Murphy type as Secretary of State. It's easy if you try.
As to the UN, keep the Security Council seats to veto any attempt to render the UN effective and any policy we alone deem detrimental to our policy or our interests, pay no "dues" to the UN and its subsidiaries, and let the UN know we are sovereign again whether the diployakkers like it or not. Rip the UN out of Manhattan and out of the USA as an affront to our people.
To the best of my knowledge, the Connally Reservation protects the USA from foreign busibodies on the "World Court." If it fails, in any way, to be a complete repudiation of the awful notion of the USA or ANY American citizen being subject to the jurisdiction of the "World Court" or any other pretentious pack of internationalist anti-American morons that presumes to judge the USA and her citizens. Ours was a Declaration of INDEPENDENCE and not one of "interdependence" or of craven surrender to our enemies. I don't want the US judged by Canada much less by Ahmanutjob and the red hot mullahs or the "former" soviets or the Red Chinese. We ought never haul them before globaloney courts. Our judgments can be rendered wordlessly by our military.
I agree on Pakistan but Teheran needs to be rendered a permanent monument to the stupidity of its arrogant leaders. I would prefer that Israel be the nation that does what needs doing. They cannot responsibly trust Obozo or Romney on matters military or on the survival of their nation and its people nor can they wait for the next manly POTUS to assume office in four or eight years.