We got the world though the Cold War. We don't owe anybody a thing.
We got the world though the Cold War. We don't owe anybody a thing.
So we'll let the Muslims throw the Jews into the sea and take over Africa; sit back and let the ChiComms take Taiwan and for good measure, the Philippines; let a nuclear war begin between Japan and the Norks; and let Putin have the old USSR territories back. Then, he and the Caliphate can start to carve apart what's left of Western Europe. England's practically halfway towards bowing to Mecca as it is.
Who cares, right? Not our problem! the USA can just sit back and let the world go by. Oh wait, who's that knocking at our door?
“We got the world through the Cold War. We don’t owe anybody a thing.”
Until the next cold war, which just began. Staying out of alliances and foreign entanglements may work in the short run, but seldom in the long run, hence WWI and WWII, the Korean War, Desert Storm, Iraq 2, Afghanistan. You don’t take care of business in the short term, you’ll just have to take care of business in the long term. Which usually means a war. Iran will be the next example of just that. Obama is doing nothing now, and is preventing Israel from taking care of business. Thus, in the long term (and it’s not going to be very long) Iran will have nuclear weapons and the world will rue the day. Pennywise and pound foolish.
We have no treaties obligating us to defend Israel, nor should we. President Eisenhower did informally obligate the US to maintain Israel’s access to the Red Sea in return for returning the Sinai to Egypt. But when the time came to meet that obligation early in 1967, LBJ blinked, and war came a few months later. We do have a treaty obligation to defend the borders of the Ukraine, we won’t, imo making this a rather stupid time for Obama to be bringing this up. I doubt anyone trusts America under Obama.