Posted on 09/30/2016 1:06:57 PM PDT by nuconvert
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009, and months later began serving as NATO secretary general until 2014. He is currently promoting his new book, The Will to Lead: America’s Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom. The Washington Free Beacon interviewed Mr. Rasmussen during a visit this week to Washington D.C.
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WFB: The central theme of your book is the exceptional importance of U.S. leadership. But what would you say to the American who says, “Let the world deal with its own problems. Keep us out of it?”
Rasmussen: I would tell the Smith family in Peoria: the overall headline would be that it’s in your self-interest to be the global leader. I would suggest three things. First, if you do not attack the enemy on their soil, they will attack you on your soil. You saw that on Sept. 11, 2001. Go overseas and fight the enemy. Secondly, I would say that prevention is less expensive than a cure. So it’s very important for the U.S. to address conflicts while they are still small and manageable. The U.S. should not do what it did in the 1920s and 1930s and let world problems grow to a point that resolving those problems costs a huge amount of blood and treasure. Third, it is in the U.S. interest to preserve the world order that the U.S. itself created after the Second World War.
It’s a fact that America prospers when the world is at peace and free trade flows across borders. And that’s what came out of President Truman’s framework after the Second World War. He created institutions that have served an unprecedented era of peace. And right now that order is under attack from Putin, from terrorists, from rogue states everywhere.
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nope. you get no more of my children....................................................................................................................................................................................................... and I mention FU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seconded
Police don’t work for free.
If they had to doctheir own security thy couldnt spend all their forced confiscation on all their welfare and social programs. How,will they feed and clothe and pay all the g-d muslims leeching off everyone there?
Yeah, OUR security. Not necessarily everyone elses. Like we do now.
If the world wants America to be a policeman, then pay the cost. One trillion per year seems to me a fair starting point, world. And the money goes to pay for equipment and salary to the troops providing the police services.
I don’t think we’re even policing America against traitors and seditionists. This country is having the indispensable tool for free speech, the Internet, stripped away from it. We can’t take even adequate care of our vets. This country is in bad shape and the best I think we can do is turn our energies inward. We are simply stretched too thin.
“If not us, there will be someone else.
China
Russia”
Exactly
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