I think you’ve hit on something there. I think we should employ that idea for police here in the US. We’ll keep them inside the police station until a crime is committed. If you can ignore the sheer number of rapes robberies, and murders that will occur because no one is around to detour them, think of the savings.
If there is a war in the mid east or any other potential trouble spot our planes delivering tanks, troops and bullets will pass right over Germany. Only they will have no place to land since you pulled out all the infrastructure to support them.
I suppose you can say we got no business being anywhere in the first place. Being isolationist did not work out very well at Pearl Harbor and things have not improved in our favor since. Bad guys got nukes now, do you think a surprise attack will be less or or more deadly the next time some third world hell hole wants to take your lunch money? What enemy is going to give us a year to move from the US to the front lines this time?
The GOP war enthusiasts keep pointing to WWII as evidence that “isolationism doesn’t work.”
There would have been no WWII if we hadn’t gotten involved in WWI, and if our brainless prat of a president, Woodrow Wilson, hadn’t come up with his idiotic notions that led to the League of Nations. If we had allowed the Europeans to destroy themselves in WWI without our tipping the balance, they would have had nothing left with which to start WWII.
Police already stop almost no crime, BTW. They show up after the fact and take a report and clean up the bodies. If you need education on their lack of any duty to “protect” individuals, I recommend you read Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005), a ruling by the US Supreme Court which has settled for once and all the issue of what the police have a duty to do, and it isn’t “stop crime.”
Here’s the bottom line for all those who want a “robust foreign policy:”
We’re broke. The only way to preserve our sovereignty in the very near future will be to cut the budget deficit as quickly and deeply as possible and reverse the absurd fiscal and monetary policies that are causing other nations to dispose of the US dollar as a global reserve currency even now. When the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency, oil will likely no longer be priced in US dollars, and at that point, it’s game over for the US economy.